tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1435024346302357961.post3385233705792675312..comments2023-12-06T10:17:02.729+00:00Comments on Swiss Odyssey: Proposed vote seeks basic income for allSarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04989829500956723872noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1435024346302357961.post-61559198249857884742016-03-27T11:55:54.831+01:002016-03-27T11:55:54.831+01:00Hi Robynn, thank you for your wonderfully comprehe...Hi Robynn, thank you for your wonderfully comprehensive comment. And very inspiring. I am so glad you are for this idea too. You're right, there aren't a great deal of inspired details of how this would work financially but it is a big move forward and does indeed get us talking and thinking and hopefully working out how it can all be achieved. Sarahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04989829500956723872noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1435024346302357961.post-63307673602271910122016-03-25T20:11:37.714+00:002016-03-25T20:11:37.714+00:00There are some very strong economic arguments for ...There are some very strong economic arguments for the basic income project – especially if it replaced other welfare programmes (eliminating the administration costs of means testing). Best of all, it's actually been tried at various times and places, and yielded solid results. The best known was the "Mincome" project in a Canadian town. <br />http://basicincome.org.uk/2013/08/health-forget-mincome-poverty/<br /><br />I'm very pro-basic income. And I love that Switzerland's political system means it can be proposed as a serious national possibility. Unfortunately, I think that same system means it's doomed. The proposers haven't made any effort that I've seen to motivate how it can be paid for, leaving that to government; but that means govt can scare voters off by saying it would have to be paid for with a rise in VAT – which is a regressive tax and so very counter-productive. This is basically a move to make headlines and raise the profile of the basic income movement around the world. It's not a serious effort... at least, not yet.woollythinkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11748575029761173284noreply@blogger.com