Now I'm really surprised. Spiegel Online published an article on an unconditional basic income ... and that a benevolent!
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is necessary, therefore, a holistic complete overhaul of the social Assurance. Germany needs a change of system to a tax-financed basic income for all, towards an unconditional basic income.
(...) The idea is this: The State guarantees to all citizens, from infants to the elderly for life a living monthly income. The basic income is paid to unconditionally and not bureaucratic. All receive a basic income, irrespective of whether young or old, employed or unemployed, married or single. The basic income is tax free. On the other hand, all income from employment, interest and dividends, rent and lease from first to last € captured at the source and with a uniform and constant strain rate.
Most of today's social transfers could be replaced by a basic income. Instead of all the many individual benefits such as rent, welfare, unemployment benefits (Hartz IV), student loans, housing and child benefits should be only a basic income.
(...) This is also the justification for the unconditional: An enlightened society with Christian values is never right to allow that people to languish without food and clothes, shelter and undignified. You will search in every case to prevent a crash through the floor and lay a safety net. The unconditional basic income grant only makes explicit what is implicit in any case.
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course will not make an unconditional basic income from the reality of a paradise of selfish and do-gooders. There will still be people who cheat, this system, abuse and exploit to their own benefit. But that does not work. It is not to make policy because of annoying exceptions for individual cases. It is possible to search for a new social policy that integrated solutions for all.
(Source: Spiegel Online )
Hats off to the courage, sometimes leaving a reasonable voice is heard, and not just Mr. Westerwelle to post to the ramps!