With a basic income, every citizen should receive a financial contribution from the state regardless of their economic situation.
One of the advocates is the Eichenau Bundestag candidate Ulrich Bode.
He wrote a book about it.
Eichenau
- The fact that you can get money from the state without working is an unbearable idea for many. A basic income, perhaps even unconditional, has no chance of a political majority in the foreseeable future. But this support has long been in a party that one would not necessarily expect: the FDP. And their Bundestag candidate Ulrich Bode has now designed the entry into a computer-controlled basic income in a book of over 200 pages: “Social 4.0 instead of Hartz IV” is the name of the script.
There was already a basic income up to the Hartz laws. Unable to work, but also unwilling to work, the state financed the essentials of life in the form of social assistance and assumption of rent and heating costs, before a red-green federal government demanded something in return. The now 59-year-old Bode has been following the topic for a long time and, according to him, it was the real motivation for the Bundestag candidacy. The basic income can be advertised in the election campaign.
The Liberal does not name any amounts at which the citizen's hair could stand on end, and also does not define any requirements for receiving state alimony.
He just cannot imagine an “unconditional” basic income, even if the only condition were that the recipient lived in the country.
Negotiating the details is a matter of politics once the entry into the system has been successful.
Theoretically, a certain amount would be defined which would have to be well above the subsistence level and which would be offset against income in a proportion that has yet to be determined.
There are no sanctions.
Computer scientist Bode also relies on a fully automated, digital process that could be managed by the tax office, for example. All of the recipient's data has already been recorded, and citizens could calculate their basic income "in a minute" - and apply for it.
The bottom line is that the new pillar could even come to the state more cheaply than previous social transfers, including child and housing benefits, believes the Eichenau municipal and district council. The administration would be relieved, and more people would probably get back into employment because work with lower earnings could be more worthwhile again. And the basic income could offer security to take the plunge into self-employment. "It is, so to speak, entry-level financing and a safety net in an entrepreneurial crisis," writes the Liberal: "An instrument for a culture of thirst for failure."
And what about the creampie in the hammock? One will have to live with the fact that those who could actually do it on their own would also benefit from the new support. But to ensure the subsistence level of its citizens is also the task of a humanistic welfare state. (Olf Paschen)
