The platform of the Green Party of the United States endorses basic income. In Section IV: Economic Justice and Sustainability, the Party writes, "We call for a universal basic income (sometimes called a guaranteed income, negative income tax, citizen's income, or citizen dividend). This would go to every adult regardless of health, employment, or marital status, in order to minimize government bureaucracy and intrusiveness into people's lives. The amount should be sufficient so that anyone who is unemployed can afford basic food and shelter. State or local governments should supplement that amount from local revenues where the cost of living is high."
Section IV of the party platform is online here. http://gp.org/index.php/what-we-believe/our-platform/17-platform/41-iv-economic-justice-and-sustainability.html#LivableIncome
A recent Swiss petition drive has mandated a national referendum on a Basic Income. Parliament will have more than a year to craft the wording and call for a vote. An entirely separate petition drive has called for limiting CEO pay to no more than 12 times the lowest pay in the company. The vote on this issue will happen this month. Although the two petition drives in Switzerland were entirely separate, and to some extent competing, a new petition drive in the United States had combined the two proposals, calling for both limits on CEO pay and a basic income guarantee. This proposal is online at: http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=8734
Another petition is online at the Whitehouse.gov website reading, "we petition the Obama administration to: Establish a basic income guarantee for all Americans, similar to what is being proposed in Switzerland. This would establish a guaranteed income for all Americans, immediately eliminating poverty and reducing bureaucratic costs." Posted on November 15, 2013, this petition has only 30 days (until December 15, 2013 to collect 100,000 virtual signatures to trigger an official response by the White House. This petition is online at: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/establish-basic-income-guarantee-all-americans-similar-what-being-proposed-switzerland/jFbgDZ4h
Neither of these petitions are organized or sponsored by the USBIG Network.
7. BIG News from around the world SWITZERLAND: Citizen's initiative formally accepted
[Original by Enno Schmidt & Daniel Straub, translated by Joerg Drescher]
Today [November 8, 2013], the Federal Chancellery of Switzerland announced that the citizen's initiative for an Unconditional Basic Income has been formally accepted. It stated that after the validation of the signatures on 4 October, 126,408 valid signatures were submitted. Thus, the Federal Chancellery of Switzerland confirms formally: There will be a national referendum [on Unconditional Basic Income].
Now, the Federal Council will consider Basic Income and prepare a report on it. This will take about one year. Afterwards there will be a debate in the parliament. The national referendum will follow in two to three years. The question is: Should each person in the country receive the financial basis for a living unconditionally?
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