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Please feel free to re-publish this
http://basicincomeguarantee.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/basic-income-for-small-business.html
Will do and thanks for this… i’ll try and get to it this evening at some point and then publish… if you then want to have a look and tell me whatever edits you want to include/amend I can go back and revise… Also, do you also have a ‘small business’ photo to go with it?
Cheers
David
Citizens’/Basic Income has been on the Green agenda for many years. However, it appears to be more a statement of aspiration than one of intent. Questions about how it would be financed, how it would be phased in and to what level it might reach seem to have daunted attempts to come up with firm proposals which could be incorporated into a political program capable of implementation within a 5 year parliament.
One of the objections which would undoubtedly be raised against it is that it would be seen as a system of social welfare, transferring income through taxation and benefits.
A way to address this objection would be to design Citizens’ Income as “an income of right”, by identifying the source of the income as arising from common ownership.
The case can be made that all natural resources are intrinsically commonwealth. Land, for example, has historically been expropriated (through enclosures etc.) from commonwealth to private ownership. While it is politically impractical at this time to seek to return such “freehold” assets to common ownership, it is perfectly reasonable to make a case that a commonwealth rent should be charged for the use of them. In the case of consumable resources such as minerals, a commonwealth charge would be levied on the materials extracted.
Funds raised on such a basis would be classified as Citizen’s Dividend, earned from the productive use of commonwealth assets. Other Citizens’ Income, arising from tax and benefit transfer payments, such as replacing existing benefits, would be shown as a separate payment, perhaps as a temporary supplement pending the identification of further Citizens Dividend earnings such as charges for degradation (pollution etc) of commonwealth assets such as clean air and water.
http://daretodreamt.wordpress.com/2014/06/01/a-proposal-to-end-poverty/
Basically, (see what I did there) here is an article I wrote about Basic income. It has a radical tinge to it, but nevertheless illustrates a clear argument about why the basic income is necessary in our society. Reblog or republish as you wish.