Teh One Who Knocks
01-29-2016, 11:38 AM
By Ian Sparks , Andy Lines - The Mirror
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The Switzerland government plans to pay every single adult a guaranteed £425 a week – whether they work or not .
The radical plan will be voted on in a countrywide referendum later this year.
If the Swiss vote yes it would make the country the first in the world to pay all of its citizens an unconditional income, with politicians hoping it could help abolish poverty .
Under the scheme each child would also receive £100 a week.
The government estimates the cost of the proposal at £143 billion a year.
Around £105 bn would be raised from taxes, while £38 bn would be transferred from social insurance and social assistance spending.
The initiative’s committee said in a statement: “The argument of opponents that a guaranteed income would reduce the incentive of people to work is therefore largely contradicted.”
The group said a new survey showed that the majority of Swiss residents would continue working if the guaranteed income proposal was approved.
Only two percent would stop working, while eight percent said they could may stop working depending on circumstances.
However, a third of the 1,076 people interviewed for the survey by the Demoscope Institute believed that ‘others would stop working’.
And more than half of those surveyed (56 percent) believe the guaranteed income proposal will never see the light of day.
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The Switzerland government plans to pay every single adult a guaranteed £425 a week – whether they work or not .
The radical plan will be voted on in a countrywide referendum later this year.
If the Swiss vote yes it would make the country the first in the world to pay all of its citizens an unconditional income, with politicians hoping it could help abolish poverty .
Under the scheme each child would also receive £100 a week.
The government estimates the cost of the proposal at £143 billion a year.
Around £105 bn would be raised from taxes, while £38 bn would be transferred from social insurance and social assistance spending.
The initiative’s committee said in a statement: “The argument of opponents that a guaranteed income would reduce the incentive of people to work is therefore largely contradicted.”
The group said a new survey showed that the majority of Swiss residents would continue working if the guaranteed income proposal was approved.
Only two percent would stop working, while eight percent said they could may stop working depending on circumstances.
However, a third of the 1,076 people interviewed for the survey by the Demoscope Institute believed that ‘others would stop working’.
And more than half of those surveyed (56 percent) believe the guaranteed income proposal will never see the light of day.