Universal Basic Income
Andrew Reitemeyer
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Many Pirate Parties support and have policies promoting the adoption of a universal and or Unconditional Basic Income UBI). The new leader of the Labour Party has expressed interest in UBI. Should the Pirate Party of New Zealand take a stand on the principle of UBI.
The UBI has already been discussed somewhat in another thread on Social Welfare:
https://www.loomio.org/d/zVG3Y95k/social-welfare
Research and resources:
Online resources, including calculators for different schemes of balances between certain taxes and UBI amounts, offered here: http://bigkahuna.org.nz/
The Icelandic Pirate Party brings the UBI into parliament:
http://binews.org/2014/11/interview-iceland-pirate-halldora-mogensen/
Talk by economics Professor Philippe van Parijs, summing up the usual pat arguments against UBI, and the economic rebuttal to those arguments:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7nY0UWrSIA
An argument for Guaranteed Minimum Income from Milton Friedman (he calls it Negative Income Tax):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtpgkX588nM
Danyl Strype Tue 4 Aug 2015 2:54PM
Another talk on UBI from Prof. Guy Standing, author of the book "The Precariat".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WaA8zqjBSk
Andrew McPherson · Sun 2 Aug 2015 8:22AM
Personally I favour a simple UBI at the rate of $500 per week, which would be about twice as often the superannuation payments, and sufficient for tertiary students. ( Paid in excess by a single flat transactions tax )
I would point out that the main point of a UBI is to allow the young, the old, the students and the small business owners to live and to not worry about whatever petty regulation the major parties cook up each year.
The UBI brings certainty back to people's lives in planning how to live with decency and dignity, which is something that opponents of the UBI do not bring to their side of the debate.