This petition was submitted during the 2017 to 2019 Parliament
Rejected petition Campaign for a Basic Income Guarantee
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Anyone who falls below the poverty line, employed or not, is lifted back to security. Protection against poverty would be a right, not a privilege. Meanwhile, working would always pay off, because above the poverty line, basic income would be stepped down incrementally, instead of cut off.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/05/how-we-make-basic-income-reality-Rutger-Bregman/
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