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Basic Income in Ireland

Basic Income in Ireland. An idea whose time has come. Welcome. What is basic income?. payment by state to every resident always tax-free no means test or work requirement sufficient to live a decent lifestyle replaces most social welfare payments replaces most tax credits

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Basic Income in Ireland

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  1. Basic Income in Ireland An idea whose time has come Basic Income Ireland

  2. Welcome Basic Income Ireland

  3. What is basic income? • payment by stateto every resident • always tax-free • no means test or work requirement • sufficient to live a decent lifestyle • replaces most social welfare payments • replaces most tax credits • includes people with no current income Basic Income Ireland

  4. Why basic income? • A caring society • guarantees basic financial security • The smart economy • supports a modern, flexible economy • Quality of life • improves everyone’s quality of life Basic Income Ireland

  5. Basic income and you • If you are unemployed ... • If you are a young ... • If you are self-employed or trying to start a business ... • If you care for others... • If you do artistic and creative work ... • If you are employed … Basic Income Ireland

  6. Funding Basic Income in Ireland • Social Justice Ireland proposal • Within current tax/welfare system • Based on 2012 data • Income • Expenditure • Population • Calculated in Summer 2012 Basic Income Ireland

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  13. Basic Income Ireland-who we are A network of people working towards making universal basic income a reality in Ireland Affiliated to an international network of groups working to achieve the same objective We are taking a strategic approach to build support for the idea Main elements of the strategy Please get involved! Basic Income Ireland

  14. Basic Income Ireland-strategy Developing knowledge and understanding amongst members of the network of all work / models of basic income Establishing the economic and financial viability of model/s to show that a guaranteed basic income can be implemented Raising awareness of, and support for, the concept and involving people Making the case to everyone – but targeting the message Build the network Agree an appropriate structure / mechanism to drive implementation of the strategy Basic Income Ireland

  15. Clarifications? Basic Income Ireland

  16. Basic income and you • If you are unemployed ... • If you are a young person... • If you are self-employed or trying to start a business ... • If you care for others... • If you do artistic and creative work ... • If you are employed … Please join a group or form a group around a different category, e.g. pensioners, Travellers, farmers… Basic Income Ireland

  17. Questions for groups Do you think that basic income does address the needs of your group? What do you think of basic income overall? Basic Income Ireland

  18. Group responses Basic Income Ireland

  19. Remarks by Erik Olin Wright Villas Distinguished Professor Sociology University of Wisconsin-Madison Author of Envisaging Real Utopias (Verso, 2010) Class Counts (Cambridge UP, 1997) and many other books and articles see http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/soc/faculty/pages/wright Basic Income Ireland

  20. Get involved! See the last page of handout for details See website www.basicincomireland.com Thanks for your participation this evening. Basic Income Ireland

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