Posted on 12/07/2015 12:19:17 PM PST by markomalley
Finland's citizens could soon receive tax-free payouts of roughly $868 a month - just for living in the country.
Proposals being drawn up by the Finnish Social Insurance Institution call for a national basic income that would replace other benefit payments, regardless if the recipient is working or not, The Telegraph reports. It's not clear how Finland would shore up enough cash to make the payouts each year, according to Bloomberg.
Still, government officials say they're trying to encourage more people to return to work. More than 10 percent of Finland's workforce is unemployed, with figures soaring to 22.7 percent among younger workers, according to the Telegraph.
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This should be a nice Muslim magnet.
And the money comes from? Printing presses? Bit coins? No. It comes from the producers, who get raped.
You know people who fix Pot Holes in the South Bronx and don't do anything.
Or The Big Dig in Boston. >:P
And when Finland runs out of people who work from whom they get that money, then what? Riots like in Greece no doubt.
Frankly, if this replaces other benefits, it might be cheap. That is, they wouldn’t be directing all of their resources into their Muslim immigrant population, but everybody would have the same basic amount (monthly minimum wage) and therefore the Muslims couldn’t suck it all off into huge expensive programs to benefit solely Muslim “immigrants.”
This replaces other benefit programs.
Crikey!
They reduced it already?
Yesterday it was a $1000 per month!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3369075/posts
Finland is considering giving every citizen $1000 a month
I bet a reindeer is harder to mount than a goat.
868 whatever-their-currency-unit-is per month. Equals $1000/mo.
If I do even less than nothing, can I get more?
“More than 10 percent of Finland’s workforce is unemployed, with figures soaring to 22.7 percent among younger workers”
Ya think? Take people who have practically no expenses and no living requirements (one small sparse studio apartment in-town) and tell them you’ll pay their way if they do nothing? heck yeah 20% will jump onto the couch at the chance.
I wonder whether this is citizens or residents. It makes a big difference.
Chump change. Our deadbeats get WAY more than that.
Must be nice living under someone’s nuclear umbrella and not having to pay to defend yourself..
It’s not clear how Finland would shore up enough cash
Easy Answer:
By Burying their children in perpetual debt to pay for their wants today. JUST LIKE US
What did I win?
Doing that here would cost taxpayers $3.6T per year.
As others note: I’m fundamentally opposed to the idea, but if that means completely replacing the entire welfare system with “here’s $1000/month, now it’s _entirely_ your problem”, and there’s no realistic chance of otherwise cutting back welfare payments (people on verge of revolution at talk of merely reducing the rate of increase), I’ll settle for it. I also know it will never happen because (A) they’ll _always_ agitate for more using whatever special case they can imagine, and (B) in no way will the government dismiss the gazillion bureaucrats & paper-pushers subsidized by current complex welfare handouts.
Yeah, that should work. Thanks markomalley.
It’s supposed to replace existing welfare programs. In a sick twisted way they may SAVE money not needing armies of bureaucrats to push all that paperwork.
Though the bureaucrats themselves will then be unemployed and go on the dole.
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