Switzerland's voters reject basic income plan

You mean like noone ever implemented communism right and it should be tried again and again until someone actually does it "for real" in the right way, because then it would be an utopia?

 

The similarity is to ignore human nature and economy and the former attempts that all have failed and propose it as the solution to social problems that would create a better society.

 

Then it is useless and just a new brand for welfare and exactly not "basic income".

It is - it takes the taxes that are paid by those who work for their living and with their hardearned money are above some arbitrary line of income and hands that money to everyone without taking care if that person has ever worked, is able but unwilling or simply is content to live on a new raised welfare without ever doing anything productive. Practically it is trying to be a little communism where those who have something are punished for hard working with higher taxes to afford to pay for everyone, even those who never worked or were criminals, receive that money without any right to it.

The SPD in Germany has suggested something similar: "Grundrente" (basic retirement payment). "Rente" is usually a product of you paying a percentage of your salary each month to get a retirement salary in your old age.
SPD (social democrats) and CDU (christian democrats union) have both realized that in Germany quite a lot of jobs are done by people who work their entire life but get a tiny "Rente" - because a lot of jobs after the reforms of Schröder pay little money and so result in a low Rente.

SPD suggest to give a higher Rente to people, who have worked and paid their dues for 45 years,, without checking if that person actually needs the money (even millioneers or their wifes would get it...), while the CDU requires that first is checked how much people earn so that rich people do not get their low Rente raised without being in need of it.

Shifting from communism to capitalism is quite simple, quite a lot of people and an even growing number of states did it. And always there appear new people who have delusions that stealing the property of all people to distribute it fairly among everony (and someone being totally impartal regulating that) would work despite ever more times it fails.

Partly in small steps (you may not own any land as a farmer and work that yourself, but you may plant vegetables in your own backyard - and then notice that human effort manages to harvest more in small backyards than in stateowned sow-, kol- or other choses, partly in huge steps after the end of the Cold War.