Hi Chris, There are, as you and Harry note, a number of ways a BI could be established and financed in any given society (for example, see 'Tobin tax', 'bit tax'). All would be challenging and would require political negotiation. However, the most daunting challenge, in North America at least, is how to persuade the thinking, voting public even to consider the merits of the idea. Denial is rampant re globalisation, outsourcing, temp workers, etc. etc. Not to mention cultural conditioning that rejects any scenario for living that does not include a paid job (except for the wealthy, of course.)
Cheers, Sally ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Christoph Reuss [[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2010 8:09 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Futurework] How to finance a basic income in any given society Sally wrote: > I know there have been attempts to study FW financing in the US, Ireland, > Canada, Brazil and possibly elsewhere, let me recommend that you google > "basic income" The case study for Ireland www.taoiseach.gov.ie/upload/byphase1.june00.doc confirms my pessimistic expectations. The funding of BI is mainly based on income tax (i.e. punishing work) and even abolishing the existing social welfare payments. Hence, BI even DEcreases financial justice. 8-( --- Harry wrote: > There is a Georgist version called "Citizen's Dividend' to add to your > short list. This is one of the few points where I agree with Harry: The wealth of land revenues should be distributed instead of being reaped by a few very rich. But, alas, this is not what the ("mainstream") BI proponents seem to want. Btw, in the current system, Harry makes the land price speculators (esp. in China) rich by buying Chinese cheapo stuff. Chris ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SpamWall: Mail to this addy is deleted unread unless it contains the keyword "igve". _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
