[News] Scrap Personal Allowance and Replace with a NEw Weekly Cash Payment

Seasidesage said:

Hasn't it been tried and abandoned in Finland already?

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symyjym said:

I don't see a problem giving everyone a basic of something like £125 a week without being penalised in extra pt or ft work and all the extra paperwork it causes.

It would encourage employment, startups and cottage industries, and would stop desperate criminal theft. All the money only gets circulated back into the economy anyway.

I reckon it costs the country more money in bureaucracy and civil servants nit picking through peoples welfare status on a case by case basis than it would be distributing out a simple basic rate no questions asked or forms filled.

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beorhthelm said:

which point do think it'll start to unravel?

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beorhthelm said:

thats the theory. costs a lot but you can offset that cost by removing all welfare and pensions (and the department of welfare and pensions). a hard sell to those groups who think they might be missing out on something (additional benefits), as well as those that dont want to pay for it (though they recieve it). will also have to stop all the talk about poverty because we just committed to a modest minimum income (£6.5k) being acceptable.

which point do think it'll start to unravel?

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