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Finland Begins To Shape Basic Income Proposal (yle.fi)

Posted by timothy on from the free-money dept.

jones_supa writes: The Finnish social insurance institution is to begin drawing up plans for a citizens' basic income model. If eventually deployed after an experimental phase, the model could revolutionize the Finnish social welfare system. Under basic income all citizens would be paid a taxless benefit sum free of charge by the government. The proposal's director Olli Kangas says that the model would see Finns being paid some 800 euros a month in its full form, 550 euros monthly in the model's pilot phase. The full-fledged form of the model would make some earnings-based benefits obsolete, but in the partial pilot format benefits would not be affected, and housing and income support would remain as separate packages. We first mentioned this plan a few months ago, and at the start of the year touched on a program that tied a basic income program with the Fimkrypto cryptocurrency.

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  1. Basic income by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    10 Collect income
    20 Goto 10

    1. Re:Basic income by PolygamousRanchKid+ · · Score: 3, Funny

      If you don't want to pay taxes then go somewhere with no taxes (Somalia?)

      You misspelled Greece . . .

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  2. Re:I think it's a good idea by fredgiblet · · Score: 3, Funny

    B-b-but Reagan said it would trickle down!

  3. Re:Excellent. by willworkforbeer · · Score: 3, Funny

    Let's face it, who wants to pick up the trash ?

    Ooooh, I think I know this one: Uber drivers working the Jersey shore?

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