Cash initiative 2 is needed with the title "If you want to pay with cash, you must be able to pay with cash!"
Now that cash initiative 1, launched by Richard Koller with the Freedom Movement Switzerland (FBS), has been approved
with 136,000 valid signatures and will be put to a popular vote, a second cash initiative is still needed.
Why do we need them? Although the Federal Act on Currency actually stipulates that the Federal Council must
preserve cash, the business community would like to abolish it in the long term with the help of its large lobby.
The abolition of cash is possible for the economy despite the Federal Currency Act because contract law
and economic freedom are superior to this federal law.
Contract law is dispositive and because it takes precedence over federal law, it cannot really protect cash.
This is why we need Cash Initiative 2, which calls for the protection of cash as a legal
tender to be enshrined in the constitution.
What is dispositive statutory law?
In the legal dictionary, dispositive law is understood to mean laws that have the purpose of allowing all
contents of the contractual provisions to deviate from the law.
Other terms for dispositive law in the legal dictionary are yielding or waivable law.
This means that the obligation to accept cash only applies if the parties have not made any other agreements.
In practical terms, this means the following when using cash:
Up to now, each store has been able to decide for itself whether or not it wants to accept thousand-dollar
notes or small coins, for example, or even cash in general.
What happens if the economy finds paying with cash unattractive or abolishes it altogether?
As a result, payment in cash is coming under increasing pressure.
It is already no longer possible to pay with cash in certain public facilities, e.g. for tickets at
events, in toilets at train stations or for festivals where you can no longer pay with cash.
But the Federal Council does not want to launch a law for the mandatory acceptance of cash.
This is why we need Cash Initiative 2, which demands that cash be provided by the federal government and made
available to citizens as a means of payment and that it be accepted as a means of payment everywhere.
The abolition of cash is already being pushed forward throughout Europe. The EU is planning to
introduce digital central bank money as early as 2026.
Digital central bank money includes the option of blocking payments that are specific to an individual.
What people tend to forget: If digital central bank money is introduced, it is highly likely that Twint,
credit cards and debit cards will also disappear.
These would then become superfluous, as they would continue to guarantee a certain degree of freedom, which is not desirable.
This is a further step towards a surveillance state that can control and sanction its citizens by blocking their accounts.
Switzerland is the only country in Europe that has the opportunity to amend the constitution through its
direct democracy and with the help of this initiative.
In this case, to save cash. Because citizens must retain the ability to buy and sell
anonymously. Cash guarantees this and is therefore freedom!
Switzerland can be a beacon for the whole of Europe and the entire world, for the preservation of cash and therefore freedom!
If this is important to you, sign the cash initiative "If you want to pay with cash, you must be able to pay with cash!"
Below the program is the link where you can download the signature forms.
And remember to continue using cash regularly in your everyday life so that there is no longer any justification for
the state to abolish it. Because using cash means freedom!