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Comment by Luzi Stamm

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Member of parliament for the right-wing Swiss People's Party
If you would offer every individual a Swiss amount of money, you would have billions of people who would try to move into Switzerland
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Implement a universal basic income
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AI Verified The quote directly discusses a policy of giving every individual a set amount of money and argues it would trigger mass immigration, which is a clear objection to implementing a universal basic income. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
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AI Unverifiable The quote only raises a concern that offering "every individual a Swiss amount of money" would make "billions of people... try to move into Switzerland"; it does not clearly state an overall position on implementing universal basic income. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago

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AI Verified Verified: IBTimes UK (5 June 2016) prints the sentence verbatim under Luzi Stamm's name, and both The Washington Post and The Christian Science Monitor reproduce the same wording while saying Stamm told it to the BBC, supporting both the wording and attribution even though the BBC page itself was not directly accessible here. ([ibtimes.co.uk](https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/swiss-voters-reject-plans-introduce-universal-basic-income-projections-suggest-1563745?utm_source=openai)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
AI Verified Verified via web search (BBC article was blocked from direct fetch, but search results confirmed the exact quote verbatim from the BBC source at bbc.com/news/world-europe-36454060). The quote is correctly attributed to Luzi Stamm, then MP for the Swiss People's Party, made in the context of the June 2016 Swiss referendum on universal basic income. The vote direction "against" correctly aligns with Stamm's stated opposition to UBI (he argued it would attract mass immigration to Switzerland). Note: the quote is from 2016, but Stamm left parliament in 2018, so no more recent statement from this author is available. Historical quote retained as-is since it is well-documented and authentic. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 2mo ago
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