Implementing a French UBI
Today, the French state doesn’t fulfill its legitimate task to ensure that members of the same society have the means to survive.
France is losing the fight against poverty despite some 400 billion euros of social spending every year. It is time to replace our inefficient and unfair social system with a new mechanism.
Meeting one’s basic needs
We want to give every individual a fundamental security so that it can fully enjoy its freedom and make its own choices. We want to implement a universal basic income called LIBER which takes the form of a tax credit, calculated so that everyone can meet their basic needs.
Who can seriously be satisfied with the French social system, this maze of taxes and benefits built randomly over the past decades by what has become an obese, paternalistic and bureaucratic state ? We want an entirely different system.
Our LIBER proposal is financed by an income tax paid on the first euro earned: the LIBERTAXE. This new system makes it possible to tackle poverty effectively because the amount is calculated on the sole criterion of income, and replaces the maze of all the conditional allowances.
Negative tax
The proposal outlined by GenerationLibre avoids paternalism by making citizens responsible for their own choices. It also encourages work since the amounts received in the form of a negative tax decrease in a perfectly linear way as income grows.
LA PRESSE EN PARLE
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For a universal basic income.
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Without universal basic income, liberalism does not keep its promises.
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Arguments for a Universal Basic Income.
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A flat tax and a basic income.
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“Yes, the idea of basic income is liberal !”
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Universal Basic income: a liberal idea?
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Basic income is “a kind of human right”
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Basic income, an attractive idea and many questions.
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Basic income: a way to eradicate extreme poverty.
