| A basic income guarantee (basic income, citizen's income) is a proposed system of social security, that regularly provides each citizen with a sum of money. A citizens' initiative started 21 April 2012 in Switzerland www.grundeinkommen.ch www.bedingungslos.ch Feature Film on YouTube: Grundeinkommen - Kulturimpuls ein film von Daniel Häni und Enno Schmidt youtu.be Le Revenu de Base - Une impulsion culturelle un film de Daniel Häni et Enno Schmidt youtu.be Winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics who fully support a basic income include Herbert Simon, Friedrich Hayek, James Meade, Robert Solow, and Milton Friedman. Similar proposals for "capital grants provided at the age of majority" date to Thomas Paine's Agrarian Justice of 1795, there paired with asset-based egalitarianism. The 11th North American Basic Income Guarantee Congress will take place May 3-5, 2012 at the University of Toronto. www.usbig.net "Grundeinkommen: 2500 Franken für alle". Wirtschaftsmagazin ECO im SF 1 (Schweizer Fernsehen), March 18, 2011 "Für viele klingt die Idee wie eine linke Utopie: Ein monatliches Grundeinkommen von 2500 Franken für jede Frau und jeden Mann." Please note that this video may contain copyrighted material. Such material is used for educational purposes only; a "fare use" to provide understanding or give information for issues concerning us all. |