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A Citizen’s Dividend aims to give everyone a form of universal income
/0 Comments/in News, Universal Income/by Your Citizen's DividendEconomic rent, put simply, is a sort of unearned income. The benefits a farmer gets from having land that just so happens to be more fertile. The farmer can produce more fruits and vegetables. It is an unearned form of income.
A Citizen’s Dividend aims to give everyone a form of universal income.
It is the income financed from all the accumulated economic rent throughout society, particularly when it comes to economic rent from land.
It has all the benefits of traditional welfare or a universal basic income. The difference is Citizen’s Dividend gives people more than what these traditional big government systems do without needing to raise taxes for anyone.
It’s not welfare, but a Special Purpose Vehicle
/0 Comments/in Government, Politics/by Your Citizen's DividendThe land takes society’s economic and social gains
/0 Comments/in News, Politics, Universal Income/by Your Citizen's DividendThroughout history, land has always been underutilized due to the way in which its boundless economic surplus is rarely ever used (or even recognised) for its full potential to uplift society.
The same applies to other forms of the commons, like natural resources or even the airwaves. These commons can generate enough surplus to give society the wealth it needs to eliminate eight-hour workdays or even make taxation altogether obsolete.
Most people unfortunately are unaware of how much potential there is in the surplus from the commons. It can even generate enough money to give everyone in your country a healthy annual stipend to keep you and future generations financially secure.
a Citizen’s Dividend makes you wealthy
/0 Comments/in News, Politics, Universal Income/by Your Citizen's DividendThe best way to mitigate COVID Era unemployment
/0 Comments/in News, Universal Income/by Your Citizen's DividendThe pandemic has disrupted the global economy. That cannot be understated. According to a World Economic Forum report from 15 July 2021, youth employment throughout 2020 increased to 8.7% and a total of 255 million full-time jobs were lost worldwide due to the pandemic.
A guaranteed annual stipend generated by the collection and redistribution of the economic surplus from land and other forms of the commons (or, as we like to call it, a “Citizen’s Dividend”) is an effective way to help people get through these difficult times.
Land alone has enough untapped surplus value that can be distributed to everyone to help keep them stay afloat during particularly rainy days.
A self-regenerating well that never dries up
/0 Comments/in Universal Income/by Your Citizen's DividendA Citizen’s Dividend by its very nature can never run out. It will generate economic rent as long as society and human activity exist.
This economic rent can be collected and distributed back to the people. This in turn encourages people to do more trade, commerce and the like.
Which means even more economic rent is generated. It’s all part of a positive feedback loop that ensures everyone gets a steady and practically endless source of income.
Churchill spent a good deal of his life to deliver Economic Rent for UK Citizen
/0 Comments/in Government/by Your Citizen's DividendWinston Churchill was among many figures throughout history who understood the importance and potential of economic rent.
In a 1909 speech that was addressed to the House of Commons, he delivered his idea of a budget “package” he authored designed to help end poverty in the UK. Part of this package was a proposal to collect some of the economic rent.
This isn’t a very well-known aspect of his life, despite how prescient he was being. Looking back at history, one will find that economic rent collection and redistribution isn’t just a far-fetched or eccentric idea, after all, seeing as how even mainstream figures saw it as important and viable.
Citizen’s Dividend
None of that will ever happen until the reform on this page – a ‘Citizens Dividend‘ funded from Economic Rent. – is put into place.
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