France: Senate Report Marks Another Milestone for Basic income  … After months of hearings and discussions with experts, the French Senate released a report on Basic Income recommending pilot projects. –Basicincome.org

In Canada, a basic income project is being tried, and now France is ready to try such projects as well.

You can see a DB commentary on the Canadian program here, one that expanded at the time along with programs, reportedly, in Finland and the Netherlands.

The idea of a basic income, provided by the government, is an exceptionally disturbing one.

Central banking debases money and prosperity. And government inevitably empowers the most corrupt and in the long-term reduces opportunities for almost everyone else.

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The parliamentary commission on basic income was initiated in May under the proposal of Socialist MP Daniel Percheron. Under the ‘mission of information’ procedure of the French senate, MPs can form an ad-hoc committee to investigate specific topics and