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.”
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
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.
Dumb idea. Super dumb idea if there’s no distinction made between citizens and residents.
Vota Socialista!
“monthly income of $868 - for doing nothing”
Obama can top that. He got a Nobel prize for the same thing.
Honestly, compared to our current system this is better. If it replaces all other benefits and there isn’t a disincentive to work it is a step in the right direction. With the system we have here, you get money for nothing but you lose it if you actually work. Why do we have so many people not working in this country (besides the Obama’s war on business)? A single parent earning $4,800 has about the same take home income as one making $21,000 because of the loss of benefits. I would rather see “here’s $1,000/mo, now go get a job” where they keep the $1,000/mo no matter what they make than “here’s a $1,000/mo, but you’ll lose it if you shovel someone’s sidewalk or try to do something productive to make any more than that.”
I swear, the scanahoovians have ice on the brain!
Of course that pales besides the average monthly US welfare benefit (all things combined) of $2900 ...
Years ago some friends took a trip to Finland and were kicked off a Helsinki bus for laughing too loud.