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Finland Begins To Shape Basic Income Proposal (yle.fi)
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.
It's actually the other way around. People won't do minimum wage jobs because they don't pay enough to live on, and if they have a job their benefits end. In some countries benefits continue for minimum wage workers (corporate welfare, where they government props up non-viable businesses that can't or won't pay enough for their staff to remain alive and healthy).
That's what will happen here - people will be able to take low paid, part time jobs to supplement their income because the basic income will mean they have enough to live.
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Murder and taxation are quite different things.
The Economist once quipped that taxation is like plucking a live goose for feathers for a pillow: You want to get the maximum amount of feathers, with the minimal amount of fuss. This is why there is no point in taxing the rich . . . they will just park their cash in the Cayman Islands or wherever. When I read the story about Cassini's Dive Through the Geyser of Enceladus, I actually thought that this was a scene from rich international corporations to hide their profits there.
Anyway, I think the "Monty Python" crew summed it up best with their sketch that suggested, "I think that we should tax foreigners living abroad!"
Everyone loves a tax that the think someone else is going to end up paying for.
And they all love "free" benefits and entitlements that they think cost nothing to nobody.
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
Except it's true? Every cent a person makes relies on society to function for its value. Money is a artificial construct that is used to signify an entities value to society. Government contributes to society (and can also be a detriment, mind) and allows a working person to function within it so it gets a cut. Don't wanna share your cut? Well fuck you buddy, if you aren't gonna play ball with society, make a raft and head out into the ocean because society ain't gonna play ball with you.
The US Supreme Court would likely still rule slavery to be illegal and in violation of equal protection and other clauses.
Majorities are insufficient for passing laws that deprive citizens of fundamental rights.
No, sorry, utterly wrong. In fact, no major democracy would allow slavery to be reinstituted simply because a majority wants that to happen.
In the case of benefits, people are in fact disincentivized from working because their welfare checks are reduced by the amount they work -- it's like having to work for free. Basic income fixes this problem because it's not an income-based benefit, a poor person can get a minimum wage job and not lose anything.
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