sabvre42 said:
Zkuq said:
Unless the cost of living is very high in Switzerland, that sounds like a very large amount. I support the idea but the amount sounds too high.
The people that need the money probably already receive it, so for them it shouldn't make a difference. However, having national welfare, or whatever you want to call it, would simplify the system and eliminate the need for having some other forms of payments. As a result of said simplification, a large amount of the people who are currently employed by the system to handle the payments could be freed up to work on productive work. And finally, the tax system can be adjusted to recoup the losses.
tl;dr: If done correctly, it won't make any practical difference to citizens. On the other hand, it will free up people to work in productive jobs instead of handling bureucracy, as well as making the system easier to understand and have less room for misuse. |
Those on government assitance will now have the ability to be picky about where they work. Service wages will skyrocket, and hence the cost of living will skyrocket.
I did some fuzzy math on the United States and it would cost about 5-6T a year to do the same here. The worst part is that in order to afford the goverment salary, the tax rates would have to skyrocket which would literally disincentize people from working.
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I don't quite follow your logic. If the people are already getting that money, albeit in a more difficult way, how would this make a much of a difference for them? Besides, not working means no extra money on top of national wage, which ought to be a pretty good incentive to work. Of course the national wage needs to be low enough so that people have an incentive to work. Ideally it would be comparable to the assistances they can already get.
