Rejected petition Pay every UK adult citizen a basic universal income of £900 per month Tax Free

Proponents of basic income say that not only does it reduce financial poverty but it has a number of other benefits, such as rewarding unpaid activities not recognised as economic contributions (parenting, and Caring for instance)." Reduces the need to turn to crime, Provides security for families.

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Source: http://metro.co.uk/2016/03/25/japan-is-considering-giving-away-free-money-5774687/ & basicincome.org.uk
Basic Income will help us rethink how & why we work A basic income can help you do other work and reconsider old choices: It will enable you to retrain, safe in the knowledge that you’ll have enough money to maintain a decent standard of living while you do. Basic income will make benefit fraud obsolete As an extension of (3), benefit fraud will vanish as a possibility because no one needs to commit fraud to get a basic income: it is granted automatically. Basic income will help reducing inequalities A basic income is also a means for sharing out the wealth produced by a society to all people thereby reducing the growing inequalities across the world.

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Date submitted 25 March 2016
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