>>For any lurkers, that post is not a satire or spoof, there's a movement in Switzerland that's quite serious in pursuing it.
In fairness, Switzerland is unbelievably rich and paying a few thousand euro to avoid unseemly poverty would appeal to the Swiss sense of order. ;-)
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1