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RE: Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen und seine Probleme
Sorry to reply in English, but that's just quicker for me.
A lot is overlooked in your analysis. The cost of police and additional services that are payed with taxes are mainly used for salaries. This cost will reduce hugely since they already receive the 1000 or 1500 euros/month.
One question remains though, is the 1000/1500 fixed or just the beginning? So, can you make more money, 2000/3000 month, but the employer only pays everything over 1000/1500?
That would mean you still get tax income over that portion.
So far all calculations I've seen fall short in taking everything into account.
Maybe we should just try it and see what happens, after all we introduced the euro without any knowledge of the consequences.
The salaries of the policeman wouldn't hugely reduce. A normal police officer in Germany gets maybe around 2200€. If he get 1500€ without doing something and only 700€ more for a 40 hours week in shift work. In my opinion no officer loves his job that much, that he does the hard work for only 700 bucks more. Maybe the salaris would reduce a bit, but not as much as you think and not as much as we need to pay the basic income.
The Euro is the perfect example for something ideologically good we have introduced without looking at the practical consequences. Ideologically good doesn't mean compulsory good for the people
I understand the salaries of policemen will not reduce, that would be stupid.
However the first 1000/1500 do not need to be paid via the money normally collected via taxes, they already receive that just like everybody else.
That's what I meant when I said
I just didn't express it correctly.