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Switzerland “could become a feudal state”

This content was published on Sep 7, 2008 Kissling tells swissinfo that the gap between the rich and everyone else is growing and that this could threaten traditional Swiss democracy and the economy. He makes a call for an inheritance tax for the wealthy. Statistics show that the 300 richest people have become 40 per cent wealthier in the past eight years, whereas…