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Fact	About studying the feasibility and impact of Basic Income (citizens wage) in Estonia \| 25.11.2016 - 31.01.2019, an initiative collecting support signatures in citizens initative portal rahvaalgatus.ee . It suggests a national study about whather the Basic Income is possible at all in Estonia. The study would contain also some tests. The initiative shoulc collect at least 1000 signatures It collected 1014 digital signatures + dozens on paper form.	View
Term	Citizens Base \| fr: Socle Citoyen, one of the basic income mechanisms proposed in France, in which the UBI (or its amount) is a so-called tax credit and the current graduated income tax is replaced by the nuclear one, and the RSA (Revenu de Solidaité Active) social aid scheme is abolished. If the base amount is equal to RSA (564 euros per month in 2021), the current estimates require a nuclear tax rate of 32%. The idea is that this mechanism will use the national tax withholding system on (...)	View
Term	citizens wage \| a popular term meaning unconditional basic income. In Estonia, it is the first and most popular term when speaking about UBI. The critics suggest that "kodanikupalk" as term is confusing as palk (wage) means money for job and "kodaniku-" (citizen) would mean the UBI is targeted only for citizens (not for all legal inhabitants). As an alternative, "popular stipendium" is proposed.	View
Term	citizenʼs allowance \| 01.01.2023, The standard citizenʼs allowance (ge: Bürgergeld) is part of the living expenses necessary to ensure the socio-cultural subsistence level in Germany. It consists of financial payments in particular for food, clothing, personal hygiene, household goods, household energy (excluding heating and hot water) and for a minimum level of participation in social, cultural and political life. This replaced some old benefit schemas like Hartz IV. Citizenʼs allowanc (...)	View
Fact	European Citizens Initiative for an Unconditional Basic Income \| 2013 - 2014 A campaign aimed to deliver the question about UBI on the EC desk	View
Video	Experimenting with Basic Income: Finland and Netherlands \| 08.11.2016, The workshop “Experimenting with Basic Income: Finland and the Netherlands” brought Dutch researchers from Utrecht, Wageningen and Tilburg to Helsinki to explore both similarities and differences between the proposed schemes, to examine the role of basic income experiments in each country, and to analyse the political and policy processes associated with piloting basic income in advanced welfare states. NB! START AT (...)	View
Problem	fear of poverty \| the problem which comes out of the possibility of poverty, which hinders a personʼs freedom of choice, but also, for example, freedom of expression. In the fear of resentment and possible dismissal from the employerʼs management, a person does not dare to express his or her thoughts or political preferences, to show social activity on one or another topic. Feeling fear of failure, he does not dare to put himself to the test in business. The fear of losing the material s (...)	View
Problem	forced choices \| a phenomenon associated with poverty or the possibility of falling into it. One of the most typical is a situation where a person is forced to "grab a straw" and accept a job that is either unpleasant or degrading, does not correspond to the personʼs abilities or its legitimacy is in doubt.	View
Person	Friedman, Milton \| 31.07.1912 - 16.11.2006, American economist, statistician, and writer who taught at the University of Chicago for more than three decades. He was a recipient of the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, and is known for his research on consumption analysis, monetary history and theory, and the complexity of stabilization policy. Friedman proposed the replacement of the existing U.S. welfare system with a negative income tax, a progressive tax system in which the (...)	View
Person	Jourdan, Stanislas \| journalist, UBI activist from France	View

Sentences and UBI answers

The task of helping the drowning people is in the hands of the drowning people themselves (literary classic - Ilf & Petrov).

There is no one to save with a life jacket like Unconditional Basic Income, because there is no drowning person, but getting out is still up to the person who has fallen into the water, unless there is a health problem or a terrible storm.

Benefits need to be well targeted, not sown from an airplane (politicians' watchword).

An unconditional basic income means "automatic" need-based targeting of financial benefits without an army of state-paid targeters. The actual support of the state is just as much as how much the UBI is higher than income taxes, thus well need-based.

Why do you give a man a fish, teach him fish instead!

Basic Income is is not a fish for the poor, but a hook for everyone. With feed. And with preserves so that the angler can stay alive while learning and trying to catch his fresh trout.

If a man will not work, he shall not eat! (The moral code of the builder of communism, the Soviet constitution of 1918 and 1936, V.I. Lenin and others - according to the apostle Paul)

The idea of a UBI is based on the principle that everyone must "eat" and the state must guarantee it, because success in the labor market or business is not guaranteed to anyone, but every citizen is necessary for the state, entrepreneurs and each other. However, everyone has to work hard for extra benefits, luxurious life and wealth.

KODANIKUPALK EESTISSE JA EUROOPASSE

Vaesumishirmuta ühiskond on vabade kodanike ühiskond

eur/month

Sentences and UBI answers

There is no one to save with a life jacket like Unconditional Basic Income, because there is no drowning person, but getting out is still up to the person who has fallen into the water, unless there is a health problem or a terrible storm.

An unconditional basic income means "automatic" need-based targeting of financial benefits without an army of state-paid targeters. The actual support of the state is just as much as how much the UBI is higher than income taxes, thus well need-based.

Basic Income is is not a fish for the poor, but a hook for everyone. With feed. And with preserves so that the angler can stay alive while learning and trying to catch his fresh trout.

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