L’iniziativa popolare svizzera chiede di limitare i costi del personale federale

That is a bit weird to me.

How can they compare a statistic that is normalized by the number of people, with one that is absolute?

That would make sense to cap the index the median salary of the federal staff with the national median salary, but use the median salary as an index for the total budget?

Do I understand this correctly, that this is an initiative to either lower the salary of federal workers, fire federal workers or potentially both?

They don’t even bother to focus on specific sectors, usually I would expect demands to cut social security, less foreign help or making it harder to get benefits. Just plainly less money across the board, austerity in its purest form.

Cut spending on public services so that the quality declines so that people are angry so that you are “forced” to privatize them.

End result is worse public services that cost more. But hey, at least a few rich people pay less tax and a few other rich people get to make some money from “selling” their crap alternatives and it’s not like they use those public services anyway.