It is you who said it August 15
Vaudois finances, the festival of August 1ᵉʳ and the digital divide
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Vaud finances
It took one more right to the great Vaud council for the left to lose its majority. Quickly drop in tax. What happens when the state coffers fill less? They are emptying! So we have to save, on hospitals for example. They were applauded some time ago. They are impoverished today.
Now it’s the tour of the school. A few francs here, a few francs there, tells us the councilor of state Frédéric Borloz in “24 hours” on August 14. But this is just a start. Next year, the government will have to find 300 to 400 million saving.
The last drop in tax has lost around 105 million per year. It seems, a new decrease of 0.5% is scheduled for 2026, not to mention the initiative of the employers’ center which offers a decrease of 12%, which would create a shortfall of around 500 million. Who is gaining in the impoverishment of the state? Not the majority of us, on the contrary.
You must not get upset, it is too hot for that.
Bernard Vuignier, Yverdon
National holiday
Fireworks have become a nuisance much more than a spectacle. Their deafening noise increasingly frequent causes panic, accidents and dead in domestic and wild animals each year. Their hearing, much thinner than ours, perceives these detonations as threats.
Is this really the price to pay for a few moments of entertainment?
Personally, each year around 1is August, I go on the other side of the border to spare my dog days of anxiety and tremors. But horses, cows, birds and all other wild animals cannot flee.
Why not take inspiration from certain cities, such as Edinburgh, Barcelona or Stuttgart, which replace traditional fires with drone shows or light projections? Moving without pollution, without suffering and just as impressive.
Brigitte Wisler, Lausanne
Digital fracture
The article “A quarter of people have digital gaps” published in “24 hours” on July 22, caught my full attention. Indeed, contacted by mail, I learn that I was drawn to participate in an investigation by the Swiss Confederation entitled “Mobility and Transportation Microrecensement – Pilot Survey with App”.
My participation is considered essential and, as a good citizen, I feel responsible for participating. But at my age already advanced (86), I do not master all the subtleties of computer applications. So I asked by e-mail what were the other possibilities to participate.
I was replied that this survey is carried out only thanks to an application that must be downloaded on mobile phone, and that there is no possibility of sending the written questionnaire or carrying out the survey by phone, specifying: “If it is not possible for you to download the application, we can take note that you do not participate in the survey.”
The paradox is that I was contacted by post, accompanied by a very detailed explanatory paper document. This is proof that our authorities, the Confederation in this case, participate in the exclusion of part of its fellow citizens.
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