{"id":2372,"date":"2022-04-02T10:07:11","date_gmt":"2022-04-02T08:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubi-europe.net\/ubi\/?p=2372"},"modified":"2022-04-02T10:14:22","modified_gmt":"2022-04-02T08:14:22","slug":"swiss-activists-have-started-a-second-federal-peoples-initiative-for-unconditional-basic-income","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubi-europe.net\/ubi\/swiss-activists-have-started-a-second-federal-peoples-initiative-for-unconditional-basic-income\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss activists have started a second federal people’s initiative for Unconditional Basic Income."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Swiss filmmaker Rebecca Panian is one of the basic income activisst who has started a second  federal people’s initiative for unconditional basic income in Switserland.
The committee launched this 2nd basic income initiative in Switzerland on September 21, 2021.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Federal citizens’ initiative
Living with dignity \u2013 For a financially viable unconditional basic income <\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

You can find information here: https:\/\/www.grundeinkommenschweiz.ch\/stand-der-sammlung<\/a>\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to be able to submit a popular initiative, 100,000 valid signatures are required. Because some signatures are always invalid, we need to collect 120,000 signatures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have until February 2023 to collect enough vallid signatures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first citizens’ initiative was in held in 2012 an go 23,1% “ja” and  76,9% “nein”. But the world is more ready now for Unconditional Basic Income!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The basic income is as utopian as, for example, the AHV and women’s suffrage once were. (In Switzerland, as is well known, especially the latter!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arriving in the 21st century, the idea of \u200b\u200ban unconditional basic income is nothing more than securing and further developing existing social systems, our democracy and our prosperity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who should pay?
Those who are currently making little contribution to financing social security: the financial sector and tech companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The introduction of a basic income is simply a long-overdue tax reform that automatically counteracts the enormous wealth inequality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In times of climate crisis, automation, wealth inequality, Corona and the coming crises and unrest, it is time that we rethink “radically” – away from the myth “meritocracy and eternal growth brings the good life” towards a “livelihood security as Human right\u00bb, so that everyone can contribute to society in the best possible way and ensure that our homeland and our achievements are preserved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are currently in the process of collecting the necessary signatures so that there can be a second vote. And that we as a country – and beyond! – seriously discuss again, in which world we want to live!<\/p>\n\n\n\n