Swiss village raises taxes to support African family,citizens outraged

[flamer84]

A village in the Swiss canton of Zurich has expressed anger over the situation of just one refugee family. To carry on supporting a mother from Eritrea and her seven children, authorities aim to increase taxes, media report.
Just over 1,000 people live in the village of Hagenbuch, which is forced to spend over 60,000 Swiss francs (around US$64,000 euro) a month on the family – 30 percent of the monthly expenses for the entire village.
The authorities are pondering a tax increase of at least 5 percent, Blick newspaper reported.
“I don’t know where to turn. I think we have no other choice but to raise taxes,” Mayor Therese Schlaepfer told the daily.

Sozial-Irrsinn in Hagenbuch ZH: «Wir sind jeden Franken wert» | Schweiz | Blick

 

[Penguin]

US$64,000 euro ... PER MONTH!?!? FOr 1 mom and 7 children? WTF? What is included in that amount?

Sure that it shouldn't be per year, assuming it is cost of living?
Which would boil down to 64 euro per inhabitant per year, or about 5 euro per month per inhabitant

 

[xenon54 out]

Haha, there was and Switzer guy from the very same village in my school, he was a right wing guy, he used to call me a "good foreigner" , he allways told me to get a Switzer citizenship, i would like to see his face now.

 

[Jaanbaz]

US$64,000 euro ... PER MONTH!?!? FOr 1 mom and 7 children? WTF? What is included in that amount?

Sure that it shouldn't be per year, assuming it is cost of living?
Which would boil down to 64 euro per inhabitant per year, or about 5 euro per month per inhabitant

Damn all those ads on TV say only £5 a month can feed a family for a month.

 

[vK_man]

Good. What goes around ,comes around.West is destroying africa and africans are coming to west to be moochers and freeloaders.

 

[Audio]

"good foreigner"

lol....

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These costs, while outrageous indeed, are basically there to assure assimilation. So these kids can also be "good foreigners", like Xenon and not "bad foreigners", like the ones rampaging in UK with knives.
Perhaps even "welfare" for all those social workers, with their useless diploma's. As far as i've read about this, it seems to be a family with severe integration problems, which could probably explain the "high frequency" of social workers' visits.
In any case, I foresee a reform in Zurich canton coming.

i would like to see his face now

He's probably looking for the nearest pitchfork.

I liked this pic, of their neighbours.

Keine Ruhe!!!!

 

[Bouncer]

These costs, while outrageous indeed, are basically there to assure assimilation

HOW ONE FAMILY OF EIGHT COSTS A SWISS VILLAGE £40,000 A MONTH
£24,000 - Cost of looking after four children at the local orphanage

£13,000 - Social worker expenses

£1,700 – General living expenses allowance

£1,300 – Housing costs and entertainment bills

 

[Audio]

HOW ONE FAMILY OF EIGHT COSTS A SWISS VILLAGE £40,000 A MONTH
£24,000 - Cost of looking after four children at the local orphanage

£13,000 - Social worker expenses

£1,700 – General living expenses allowance

£1,300 – Housing costs and entertainment bills

I wouldn't know exactly. But i imagine the high orphanage costs have something to do with the problematic nature of those kids. Although if it was me, i'd just lock them up and give bread and water until they come to their senses.

 

[Penguin]

64000 euros per month for 8 persons??? that works out to around $10000(8000 euros) per person.

A s/w engineer with 2 years experience earns around 8-9k dollars per month in the US.

If I understood the German correctly, the higher level Kanton government has relieved the lower level Town government of care of the family due to a specific threat. Now, it - the family - is aided 6 h per day, 7 days per week - by a small army of social workers ordered in by the higher level. These cost 135 franks per hour per worker during weekdays. The lower lever has to caught up the costs, however. So, the cost is the social workers, no normal cost of living / ' income'.

(135f/hour x 6 hours x 5 days)+(145f/h x 6 hours x 2 days) = 4050f + 1740f = 5790f per week for 1 social worker
60000/4,33333weeks=13846f/week
13849f/5790f=2.4 social workers full time ?

I wouldn't know exactly. But i imagine the high orphanage costs have something to do with the problematic nature of those kids. Although if it was me, i'd just lock them up and give bread and water until they come to their senses.

No, the article stated that threats were made from the community then the kids went to orphanage (unsafe in the community).

 

[flamer84]

Well,long story short,personally,I have to work like 6 years for these kind of money and i'm starting to think i have it all wrong.All i have to do is work out a battle plan with my fiance,pop out 3-4 kids in the next years and than move to Switzerland screaming that "I want to be integrated !".

 

[Penguin]

Well,long story short,personally,I have to work like 6 years for these kind of money and i'm starting to think i have it all wrong.All i have to do is work out a battle plan with my fiance,pop out 3-4 kids in the next years and than move to Switzerland screaming that "I want to be integrated !".

Remember, they are costing an amount, not getting it....

Leeching immigrants erecting minarets have no place here. Considering you're probably a leeching immigrant in the US, it's no wonder you're defending the concept.

The US has always welcomed immigrant, IIRC

Well, it's mentioned specifically in another article that the children were problematic, throwing stones at other kids and so on.

Hagenbucher zum 60'000-Fr-Sozial-Irrsinn: «Die Familie will sich nicht integrieren» | Zürich | Blick

All right, hadn't seen that (wasn't posted). Vaguely recall that at some point in my live I threw rock at someone... also recall being on the receiving end ... teen years.

 

[Penguin]

And that's why U.S is light years ahead of Europe when it comes to military, economic production, standard of living, technological advancement, space exploration, aviation industry, high-tech electronics and what not.

In terms of nominal GPD per capita, the US is behind Luxemburg, Norway, Switzerland, Danmark Sweden. European countries that are behind but close to the US are Netherlands, Finland, Ireland, Belgium. It is a little different when considering PPP rather than nominal but Norway and Luxemburg remain ahead still and Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, Ireland remain close. Hardly 'light years'
List of countries by GDP (nominal) per capita - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
List of countries by GDP (PPP) per capita - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Besides, have you actually travelled throughout the US? You will find extreme differences e.g in standard of living.

While racist unintelligent Europeans are keeping their own continent backward by being a$$holes to immigrants.

Beg pardon?

In 1620, in the Dutch Golden Age, one in 10 people in the Netherlands was foreign born. In Dutch towns such as Amsterdam this could be as much as one in four.

BBC NEWS | Special Reports | Migration: A historical perspective

Since the end of World War II, four distinct phases of immigration in the Netherlands have emerged.

• 1945 to 1960: Immigration was driven by the decolonization of Indonesia and Surinam.
• 1960 to 1973: Excess labour demands attracted immigrants from Southern Europe and North Africa. Initially, recruitment was managed by employers, but beginning with Italy in 1960, the Government began signing “recruitment agreements” with sending countries.
• 1974 to 1997: Immigration was driven by family reunification motives (peaking in 1983-84), then by asylum seekers.
• 1997 to 2007: Flows of family reunification, asylum-seeker and low-skilled immigrants decreased, whilst recruitment of high-skilled workers increased.

The first official document to formulate a coherent policy view on immigration, the 1970 Memorandum on Foreign Employees (Nota Buitenlandse Werknemers), specified that the Netherlands was not a migration-receiving country. While the Memorandum acknowledged that foreign labour was necessary to sustain economic growth, it formalized the unofficial view that migrant workers were wanted solely as temporary transients in Dutch society.... The majority of workers were male and came without their families (in the early 1970s there were 55,000 Turkish and Moroccan guest workers and only 20,000 family members).

Policy initiatives did not achieve significant cuts in the number of new immigrants. The total number of non-Western immigrants more than tripled between 1975 and 1985 — from less than 200,000 to approximately 600,000 (the total Dutch population was approximately 15 million in that period).

While throughout the 1970s and 1980s the Netherlands saw only a couple of thousand asylum seekers per year, the number increased to 14,000 in 1988 and exploded further to yearly peaks of 53,000 (1995) and 45,000 (1999 – 2001). When the Netherlands and other countries tightened the criteria for refugee status and reconsidered social assistance in cash in 2001, the number of asylum applications dropped significantly.

Immigration and Social Protection in the Netherlands - United Nations University

The Netherlands has a long history of immigration. Both refugees and economic migrants have come to the country in large numbers. Currently almost 20% of the Dutch population are immigrants or children of immigrant parents.

Focus-Migration: The Netherlands

 

[punit]

Look at the posters they used, they portrayed minarets as missiles to get the support from swiss.

Your comment only strengthen the fact that swiss are hilly billy tribal savages with no sense of civilization in 21st century.

Muslim calling Swiss .. savage !!

 

[AUz]

Muslim calling Swiss .. savage !!

Hindu even having the courage to talk about Muslims and Swiss.

Know your place....go back to drinking p!ss.

PS, why you brought religion into it? Stop being a turd.

 

[punit]

Hindu even having the courage to talk about Muslims and Swiss.

Know your place....go back to drinking p!ss.

PS, why you brought religion into it? Stop being a turd.

i brought! who brought minaret and mosque into a thread about something altogether different! and tell me why Muslims want o live among savages !