A Basic Income for All People and a Marshall Plan for our World
Pieter Kooistra
A basic income for all people, only to be spent on goods and services for personal and community development. Financed by a Supplementary Global Economy.

Brief Summary
A very brief summary of the approach:  Each person receives $250 worth in goods and/or services annually only for sustainable personal and community development (so no weapons, etc.). Soon, the poorest become more productive and developing economies begin to flourish. The wealthy only have access to non-material services. Here over-consumption makes way for sustainable lifestyles as business ads, capitalising on the new market, focus on sustainable goods and services.

Financing
Using computers to link people worldwide, a Supplementary Global Economy is created to link unmet needs for goods and services with the unmet need for new markets. The resulting extra marketable goods and services form the collateral for a new hard global currency. Through global linking there would be an estimated 7% increase in world production. This would form the collateral for the new global currency, which provides each person with $250 when it is divided equally among all.

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Form.doc - Pieter Kooistra

FINANCING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT FOR ALL PEOPLE AND A MARSHALL PLAN FOR THE EARTH
Lisinka Ulatowska and Emile van Essen
Unleashing the potential    in each human being without harm    to people or planet

Summary
If all people were to receive goods and services to the value of US $ 250 each that can only be used for sustainable personal and community development, hunger, poverty and disease would rapidly decrease, productive and decent jobs be generated, women and the informal sector could be integrated into mainstream economies and important sources of conflict and terrorism would disappear.

Financing
The need for funding is summarized in table 1 (See the Form.doc) and has several levels to support this development: 12 year Global Organization $ 2 billion, per 2% of poorest population $ 34 billion per year, so 10% needs 170 billion, and for the total population 2.214 billion due to higher distribution costs in developed countries. After five to seven years, financial support is not anymore needed because of generated self- support, extra production, and tax revenues.

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Form.doc - Lisinka Ulatowska and Emile van Essen

CONSUMPTION TAX
by the Institute for Entrepreneurship, University of Karlsruhe, Germany,
inspired by Goetz Werner
All current taxes (e. g. income tax and corporate taxes) are paid from money received for products, i. e. ultimately from consumers. It is more transparent to have it as one single and plain consumption tax (i.e. as a value added tax, VAT)

Brief Summary
There are two possible approaches. a) All social welfare is summarized into one basic income for every citizen and/or b) VAT is increased, the proceeds being used to pay a basic income. All other transfer payments and salaries can be reduced by the amount of the basic income. Resulting reduced costs for corporations and public services will lead (if and as competition is intact) to reduced net prices. These are the base for increasing VAT. The gross prices remain stable. The basic income can gradually increase, salaries and all other taxes can gradually decrease so can net prices (and so on).

Implementation
They must agree on the form of taxation, be it a type of Value Added Tax; or on combining social benefits into one basic income payment and lowering salaries by the equivalent amount

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Goetz Werner Approach

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Goetz Werner page summary German

GLOBAL BASIC INCOME
by the Global Basic Income Foundation

Brief Summary
A Global Basic Income is a system which guarantees all people in all countries the means to satisfy their basic needs: clean water, food, clothing, housing, primary health care and education. This system should include everyone, without conditions. It should be global, because the increasingly global economic competition necessitates a social and environmental framework at the global level to prevent a ‘race to the bottom’ between companies and countries. Poverty eradication is a shared responsibility of humanity.
The GBI Foundation investigates different possibilities for introducing a global social security system that includes everyone. One possibility is a truly global system in which the United Nations has the task and responsibility to collect the funds and to distribute the Global Basic Income (GBI) to all people. Another possibility is that at the global level only the basic principles and outlines of a basic income guarantee for all people are agreed upon, whereas the actual responsibility for implementing this agreement is in the hands of national governments. Many different types of GBI are imaginable with different mixtures of global universalism and national autonomy.

Financing
For financing there are also different (combinations of) options. Currently we propose and explore three different possibilities:
1. All participating member states of the UN contribute the same percentage of their GDP to a global fund from which the GBI is paid to everyone. Countries are free to decide themselves what kind of taxes or premiums or other methods they use to raise the money.

2. Global taxes. A variety of global taxes are possible. Our first choice would be taxes on the ‘global commons’, i.e. natural resources that can be seen as belonging to humanity, such as the atmosphere or the oceans. Taxes on these global commons help to preserve them and if the are used for financing a basic income, they will give all people a share in the wealth of the global commons. A few of the most suggested options are taxes on air fuel, CO2 emissions and fish quota.

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Form.doc by Global Basic Income Foundation

SOCIOECONOMIC DEMOCRACY
by Robley E. George

Brief Summary
Socioeconomic Democracy provides a comprehensive, just, realizable, freedom-enhancing, environment-respecting, democratic means of accomplishing not only the modest, though presently doubtful, Millennium Development Goals, but also simultaneously resolving or reducing a large number of other very real and crucial planetary problems, any of which could easily preclude realization of all well-intentioned MDGs.
Socioeconomic Democracy is a practical socioeconomic system wherein there exist both some form of Universally Guaranteed Personal Income and some form of Maximum Allowable Personal Wealth limit, with both the lower bound on personal poverty and the upper bound on personal wealth set democratically by all participants of society.

Financing
Both necessary funds and economic incentive to accomplish the MDGs derives from the democratically set maximum allowable personal wealth limit.

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Form.doc by Robley E. George