Basic income for all?

[VectraMan]

The trick is that the basic income has to be low enough that working in a useful job pays substantially more, but high enough to be liveable.

The article said 2500CHF or ~£1750 per month, which sounds like quite a lot. If that were here surely that's equivalent to a salary of something like £30K. If we all got JSA, £70per week, then perhaps that's not such a bad idea. For most of us that would just be part of our tax free allowance and it'd make no difference. For Psychocandy then at least it would save him a trip to the dole office every fortnight and he wouldn't have to be the butt of JSA jokes.

We have a basic income for all. For all over 65 anyway. Pensioners get £119.30 a week for not doing anything and nobody really minds.

[DimPrawn]

The trick is that the basic income has to be low enough that working in a useful job pays substantially more, but high enough to be liveable.

Well there's the rub, since most useful jobs don't even pay a living wage....

[Mordac]

Excellent idea that! Only idiots say no to free money.

Why not pocket it and burn it on hookers?

Just a suggestion, but take it out of your pocket before you burn it. Nobody wants to see you nursing a scorched chipolata...