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Universal Basic Income, New Zealand
UBINZ - Universal Basic Income
Last updated 27 February 1998
Please send any advice or comments to Helen Marsh
Go to Helen's Place
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Papers by Supporters
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Political Parties
A growing number of people consider that there is a better way to address
the needs of our society and the people in it than cutting services and
support: a way that values and supports people and encourages them to do
and be their best. UBI, Universal Basic Income, is the name we use in
New Zealand for this 'better way'. It involves giving all citizens, a basic
level of income, as of right, with no means test, and regardless of age,
gender, marital or work status.
This approach is not a new one and is favoured by people across the
political spectrum right around the world. People coming from different positions
on the spectrum have different ideas about details and different labels for this
proposal: universal grant, citizen's dividend, social wage, negative income tax
etc. This page aims to give you a taste of the range of approaches. I hope you
can find one which makes sense to you and get a feeling for the core idea which
unites us.
If you would like to be on the UBINZ mailing list (snail) write to :
Ian Ritchie,UBINZ, C/- Private Bag 11.042 Palmerston North
Ph (06)350 6316, Fax (06)350 6319
National Council of Women - Remit
Through the initiatives taken by the Women's International League for
Peace and Freedom, UBI is the subject of a remit to the National Council of
Women conference being held on September 19-22 and so has been under
discussion by women's groups since early June.
If your organisation has a delegate to this conference you might like to talk to her about how she expects to vote on this remit and copy some of the material on this site for her or give her Ian Ritchie's address (See above).
Here is a copy of the text of the remit & a proposed amendment:
"That the NCWNZ requests the government to investigate the feasibility of
introducing a universal basic income for all New Zealanders."
Background Information:
Many people are concerned about the difficulty of making ends meet for low
wage earners and those on a benefit, the difficulty getting off a benefit
once someone is on one, the pressure on many to work harder for no extra
recompense, and the lack of recognition for voluntary and unpaid work. The
present drive for increased targeting for the remaining forms of assistance
and the cutbacks of publically funded services mean that this trend is likely
to worsen.
An alternative approach is to give all citizens a basic level of income with
no means test, regardless of age, gender, marital or work status, or income
level.
It would replace all other forms of publically funded income assistance, be
tax free and not affected by other income. The amount would be determined by
age, with adults receiving more than children, and superannuitants receiving
more than "work age" adults. Supplements would cover special disability and
housing needs.
Part of the direct costs of such a universal income scheme are already being
met through present income support programmes such as benefits and GRI. Some
of the additional costs would be met by the reduced administration and
monitoring costs of the new system. The remainder could be met by a variety
of methods - some favouring changing to a new taxation system entirely, with
taxes on energy, financial transactions, wealth, and/or land.
Social and other factors, rather than only financial ones, need to be added
into the cost/benefit analysis, for example, cost associated with the present
crime and youth suicide rate, and the rising level of stress and long term
health problems developing as a result of present policies, and how these may
be reduced with security of income.
Amendment:
"That NCWNZ request the government to **define a basic income that would
ensure an income that would provide housing, healthcare, nutrition, etc of a
standard acceptable to New Zealanders, and that the government, after
consultation, introduce** a basic universal income for all New Zealanders"
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Links
Basic Income European Network: A really important part of our movement internationally and historically
Papers by Sally Lerner a co-ordinator of the Futurework email list conference. She also teaches environmental studies at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Ensuring Basic Economic Security
Basic Income: Framing the Concept for Canada
Sites about "sharing the earth" as a way of funding a universal basic income:
Alaska's Permanent Fund Dividend Program
EarthSharing: Reconciling economics to people and the Planet - An Australian Georgist Site
Earth Rights Institute
BEarthright - the Economics of Freedom
Slacker - The Zero Work Movement - A zany style with some graphics and gimmicks for those who like them -
Pulls together some good material on: 'The National Dividend', 'The Guaranteed Annual Income',
The Negative Income Tax' and introduces 'The RICH Economy'.
Sadly Slacker seems to have gone and not left an address. I am making enquiries, meanwhile:
The Leisure Party has similar material.
Basic Liberal Rights and the Environment - Marc Davidson uses references from Robert Nozick,
John Locke and Thomas Paine to support the right to environmental utilisation space as the
foundation for a basic income.
THEORIES OF JUSTICE : reading list and course outline, Bristol University - Includes Philippe Van Parijs
in reading list .
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Political Parties
Irish Green Party Policy
European Federation of Green Parties (38K) Few links to help you find your way around.
"As agreed upon during the conference at Masala, Finland, June 20th 1993
Information Office EP - BEL 3.142 97-113 rue Belliard B-1047 Brussels
ph. :32-2-284.51.35 fax : 32-2-284.91.35 e-mail : egc@gn.apc.org
. . . . 4. Sustainability will not be possible as long as poverty persists, or people live in material
insecurity. We will ensure a guaranteed minimum income for every citizen through either
a social assistance scheme or minimum wage legislation, or improved welfare benefits
or the introduction of tb>the basic income, or a combination of the above mentioned. "
UK Greens -
(157K) Few links to help you find your way around.
Oliver Moldenhauer received the file the 23/1/95 from Julian Edmonds
(jedmonds@gn.apc.org)
who got it from the BBS of the UK Greens. (Green Express, Tel: 01753 822244 (from the UK)).
"Decentralisation & devolution - EC202 To devolve economic power to the lowest appropriate level, thereby rendering participants in the economy at all levels less
vulnerable to the damaging effects of economic decisions made
elsewhere and over which they have no control; to support the
'informal' sector (notably by provision of a basic income for all)
thus reducing the impact of the formal economy."
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