Jun
19
8:00pm
Funding UBI: Global UBI; Taxing Natural and Social Rents
By The BIG Conference
Papers to be presented:
- Final steps to a UBI (global UBI) [Brake] What is needed to fund a UBI worldwide? We have counted the countries that cannot fund a UBI and totalled the shortfall required. The proposed UN Wealth Fund is designed to facilitate the delivery of this. We surveyed the effects of 4 different UBI models on 4000 people….The best funding model improved the lives of 94% of people and delivered the best result for the poor.
- [Funding UBI through] Resource Taxation [Smith] Funding a basic income from taxes on labor or capital has obvious political obstacles. An alternative is to tax natural rents-- the annual rental value of land/locations and natural resources, from oil to the electro-magnetic spectrum—and social rents—the annual market value of every government-granted privilege from corporate charters to monopoly patents.
Presenters:
Jeff Smith, US Society for Ecological Economics
Jeffery Smith coined “Citizen’s Dividend” and “geonomics” used by CNBC and Middlebury College, authored Counting Bounty, edited Progress, published The Geonomist, winner of California’s GreenLight Award, articles in the popular press (e.g., TruthOut) and academic journals (e.g., Planning and Markets), six governments reprinted his report on land value, researched for Portland’s mass transit agency, lobbied and ghost-wrote for officials, testified before the Russian Duma, been interviewed on radio and TV, and recruited activists and academics to the Geonomy Society. A member of the International Society for Ecological Economics and of Mensa, he lives in America’s Pacific Northwest.
Peter Brake, Universal Entitlement Trust
Peter has worked with the BIEN outreach group since its inception facilitating finding UBI funding alternatives for various countries. Working on UBI funding for India, China, Philippians, New Zealand & all the countries in the EU he has researched countries earnings worldwide and know which can afford a UBI and how. Author of the myubi.co.nz website which compares your personal results from receiving a UBI from 4 different funding alternatives. His papers included "How Much can India Afford for a Yearly Basic Income", "Implementation of a Basic Income Financial Feasibility of a UBI" & "Financing Concepts of a Euro-Dividend"
Moderator:
Jim Mulvale, Faculty of Social Work, University of Manitoba
James P. Mulvale, MSW, MA, PhDDr. Jim Mulvale is a faculty member in Social Work at the University of Manitoba. He teaches courses on social welfare policy and has published on universal basic income and on social work theory and education as they relate to social justice and ecological sustainability. He is currently on the steering group for a project on “Livelihoods, Incomes, and Community Resilience for a Net-Zero Canada” funded by Environment and Climate Change Canada.
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