AARAU - Owner families in the Aargau machine cluster spent the last midweek on the phone to cousins who vote in Lucerne, Zug and Solothurn. The climate inheritance tax was the subject. Civic duty was a footnote. People who run a shop do not need a second duty explained. They need the first tax explained again.
Order books are still not fat. A theoretical bill on a future estate feels less theoretical when the night shift is already gone.
Sunday, then the tools
If the nos arrive as expected, Wednesday will sound like a workshop again. That is the outcome these callers want. It is also the one the polls have been selling for a fortnight.