Money for all! Who would not be seduced promises of basic income, universal allowance allocated for no consideration? L Finland has plans to put in place, up to 800 euros in 2017. Switzerland organizes, Sunday, June 5, a referendum “for or against the payment of a minimum income [2 500 Swiss francs or 2,250 euros] all its inhabitants, whether they work or not “ says Time .
A dream for all? Not necessarily, polls predict the victory of the “no” and the rejection of the initiative. Francetv info explains why we must oppose this money fell from the sky. In the interests of balance, it also explains why we must defend it tooth and nail.
It costs an arm and a head
The argument: how to finance this cost allocation to the vertiginous Near the Socialist Party, Jean-Jaurès Foundation has outlined three scenarios of universal income to 500, 750 and 1000 euros per month. Result? If 750 euros were allocated each month to every French, the measure would cost 565 billion euros, or 26% of GDP. On the other side of Mont Blanc, “should be found every year € 200 billion to serve the 8 million Swiss “, calculates La Croix.
Why join: the Swiss newspaper Review highlights the growing weight that will weigh on assets: “ Only labor taxes will complete the financing of the pension for those who choose to leave paid work. (…) in the end, the unconditional basic income ( RBI) should be financed by those who, ironically, belong to the ‘world before RBI’, that of wage labor, even as RBI advocates consider obsolete. “ is such a model sustainable long-term? And acceptable to those who will bear the burden? No, say his detractors
It does not want to work
argument. basic income, according to its supporters would finally be free of labor “suffered”. Nonsense to David Cayla, lecturer in Angers, contacted info francetv
The majority of jobs -. Schools , kindergartens, hospitals, retirement homes … – are difficult jobs but essential. We can not dispense with it!
“work is a social need, he explained. it must be organized, with utilities and private that work. and it is, the majority of hard work, not mechanized and non-negotiable. We can not suggest that the company may in exempt. ”
Why join: On his blog Eco Class Alexandre Delaigue went further: “Few people willing to make unpleasant and badly paid jobs if they already receive the basic income.”
of course, according to a poll published on 19 April in the Swiss newspaper 24 , only 2% of Swiss would stop working if the unconditional basic income was adopted (to 2 250 euros about ). But the median gross wage in Switzerland, according to the magazine Challenge , amounted in 2014 to “6118 Swiss francs or 5,014 euros a month.” Far wages . French
It does not help overcome the precarious
the argument: the introduction of a basic income would not unrequited. According to Economic Alternatives , “the only viable way of establishing a basic income is to eliminate some social benefits.”
These seem to be the tracks followed, not only by the liberal movement free generation, but also by the Fondation Jean-Jaurès (near PS). It considers that a basic income to 750 euros “ could be financed by redirecting all current expenditure on social protection (pensions, health insurance, unemployment, family allowances), except those devoted to support long-term ailments “. In this case, the basic income would be a probable consequence of impoverishing some of the unemployed
Why join. “Needless to dream the company with a basic income for those who have no other income to live decently is the equivalent of heaven for believers desirable but unattainable in our lifetime, “ slice economic Alternatives
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