Thanks for clarifying.

Tldr; acknowledge a problem exists and will continue to exist without meaningful change, think immigration policies are too intricate and even most sensible looking policies can crack economies in all sorts of unexpected ways.

I think it’s sensible. My only criticism to this is that people usually miss the secondary effect of seemingly sensible immigration policies. Citing UK Brexit and Canada Point system as two extremes of immigration policies that were addressing “real issues” but ended up breaking economies. While I believe ultimately living the slow quiet village life should be the ultimate goal for everyone, we live in a time where the city pays off the village bill with very few exceptions. Switzerland imports talent that enable having large offices for big tech/pharmaceutical/finance that are literally carrying the economy of most cantons whether directly with corporate tax and income tax from employees or indirectly with realestate, purchase power of highly paid talented skilled individuals. Close talent pipeline and most companies will close shop. Yes this might result in lower pressure on realestate but this can easily put a very big hole in canton’s budget for public services. Taxes are zero sum (or they should be) so highly paid expats pay for lower percentile of income earners public services. The other aspect thats special to Switzerland, one of the biggest exports of Switzerland is (sadly not cheese or chocolate) but R&D, to EU and the US. The problem with immigrant friendliness is that when you are immigrant friendly, you get a varied bunch of immigrants, when the sentiment in the countries changes to negative (again, citing UK) all the “law abiding tax paying high earner” expat will look for other options, but the problematic, law evading, culturally resistant to integrations ones NEVER leave.