Will Switzerland become the first country in the world to pay its citizens regardless of whether they work or not?
In six months, Swiss citizens will go to the polls and vote in a referendum on whether they agree with the proposal that every adult citizen, employed and unemployed, should receive a basic fixed monthly income from the state.
The proposal is that the basic salary is 2.500 francs for adults (2.300 euros every month), while pensioners and children would receive less.
The idea is that citizens can devote more of their time to the things that really interest them, and not to think all the time how they will meet their basic financial needs for food, utilities... In order to finance basic income, Switzerland would have to introduce higher taxes for the richest .
The government in Finland is guided by the same idea, which announced the introduction of a basic income of 800 euros for all citizens. The Finns announced that the pilot project will start in 2017.
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