A Universal Basic Income program is social security program where all citizens of a country receive a regular, unconditional sum of money from the government. The funding for Universal Basic Income comes from taxation and government owned entities including income from endowments, real estate and natural resources. Several countries, including Finland, India and Brazil, have experimented with a UBI system but have not implemented a permanent program. The longest running UBI system in the world is the Alaska Permanent Fund in the U.S. state of Alaska. In the Alaska Permanent Fund each indivi…
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Response rates from 59.1k New Zealand voters.
58% Yes |
42% No |
48% Yes |
34% No |
10% Yes, everyone should receive an income to cover basic necessities including food and housing |
8% No, this will encourage people not to work and harm economic growth |
Trend of support over time for each answer from 59.1k New Zealand voters.
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Trend of how important this issue is for 59.1k New Zealand voters.
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Unique answers from New Zealand voters whose views went beyond the provided options.
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No. A UBI of 50k per person per year would sum to 250B per year (5M people x 50k). The governments budget for 2025 is something like 2.3B. You can't afford a UBI.
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Neutral. Yes, everyone should recieve an income to cover basic necessities including food and housing but this could encourage people to not work and will harm economic growth
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Yes but people who recieve support need the opportunity to recipicate the support given to them giving back is important
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Yes, Only people who medically cannot work can be on this. People who can get a job, get one don’t be lazy
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No but it is already happening on current welfare system. People need more education and training opportunities. Businesses need to be supported by government to upskill our people not look to employ immigrants to reduce there cost
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Yes, but people who can work should work, it should be extenuating circumstances that people receive benefits
