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 3.5k Internet Party voters.
21% Yes |
79% No |
19% Yes |
69% No |
2% Yes, everyone should receive an income to cover basic necessities including food and housing |
10% No, this will encourage people not to work and harm economic growth |
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Unique answers from Internet Party voters whose views went beyond the provided options.
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Yes, but people should still be encouraged to work despite having basic necessities covered.
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Yes, but on based on circumstance. Job oppurtunities in area, ability to work, ability to provide for ones self
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I'd like to better understand what this means - can you earn more than the universal basic income? So everyone in the country has the basic necessities including food and housing, but if you choose to do more, work more, can you earn more?
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Yes if the individual or family fall into a lower income criteria
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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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