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6. Is a Citizen’s Income Administratively Feasible?

verfasst von : Malcolm Torry

Erschienen in: The Feasibility of Citizen's Income

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

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This is perhaps the easiest feasibility test for Citizen’s Income to pass. In the UK, such universal benefits as Child Benefit and the Winter Fuel Allowance are the easiest type of benefit to administer; and among health services, the universal ‘free at the point of use’ National Health Service (NHS) generates fewer administrative problems than other kinds. This suggests that administration of Citizen’s Income will be easy to achieve. The chapter shows that potential difficulties could easily be overcome, and that alternatives to Citizen’s Income would all be more difficult to administer than Citizen’s Income. A further feasibility test relates to whether it would be possible to administer the transition to a Citizen’s Income scheme. Different schemes and different implementation methods can lead to different answers.

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Vorheriges Kapitel Is a Citizen’s Income Psychologically Feasible?

Nächstes Kapitel Is a Citizen’s Income Behaviourally Feasible?

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Tony Fitzpatrick (1999) Freedom and Security: An introduction to the Basic Income debate (Basingstoke: Macmillan), pp. 101, 111–22; cf. Stuart White (2003) The Civic Minimum: On the rights and obligations of economic citizenship (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. 170–75.

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Jurgen De Wispelaere and Lindsay Stirton (2008) ‘Why Participation Income Might Not Be Such a Great Idea After All’, Citizen’s Income Newsletter, issue 3 for 2008, pp. 3–8; cf. Jürgen De Wispelaere and José Antonio Noguera, ‘On the Political Feasibility of Universal Basic Income’, pp. 25–6.

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The estimated populations of the four constituent countries of the UK in mid-2012 were 53.5 million people in England, 5.3 million in Scotland, 3.1 million in Wales, and 1.8 million in Northern Ireland. So if there were 15.1 million monthly volunteers in the UK, we can assume (15.1 × (53.5 + 3.1))/63.7 = 13.4 million in England and Wales. www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/pop-estimate/population-estimates-for-ukDOUBLE-HYPHENengland-and-wales--scotland-and-northern-ireland/mid-2011-and-mid-2012/index.html

A total of 13.4 million monthly volunteers is 13.4/56.6 = 24 % of the population of England and Wales. Let us conservatively assume the same proportion of the ‘other’ category, so 76 % of 898,344 are economically inactive and not volunteers = 0.76 × 898,344 = 682,741. This is 682,741/56.6 m = 1.2 % of the population of England and Wales.

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For a discussion of the differences between Negative Income Tax and Citizen’s Income in a US context, see Troy Camplin (2013) ‘BIG and the Negative Income Tax’, pp. 97–122 in Guinevere Liberty Nell (ed.), Basic Income and the Free Market: Austrian Economics and the Potential for Efficient Redistribution (New York: Palgrave Macmillan).

Jason Burke Murphy (2010) ‘Baby Steps: Basic Income and the need for incremental organizational development’, Basic Income Studies, 5 (2), 1–13.

Bill Jordan (2012) ‘The Low Road to Basic Income? Tax-Benefit Integration in the UK’, Journal of Social Policy, 41 (1), 1–17.

Herbert J. Gans (2014) ‘Basic Income: A remedy for a sick labor market?’ Challenge, 57 (2), 80–90.

Titel: Is a Citizen’s Income Administratively Feasible?
verfasst von: Malcolm Torry
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Buch: The Feasibility of Citizen's Income
Print ISBN: 978-1-137-53077-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-137-53078-3

Copyright-Jahr: 2016
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53078-3_6

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