Category: Trudy Beaulne

If you live in ONTARIO complete this survey TODAY 

Basic Income Pilot Survey

https://www.ontario.ca/form/basic-income-pilot-public-survey

The Ontario government is currently holding a consultation on Universal Basic Income Pilot in 3 communities.  There are different ways to implement UBI, the best one is to give EVERY CITIZEN enough money to live on, no questions asked.  People who don’t need it will make up the difference ehen they pay taxes.

UBI would eliminate means testing *and* poverty stigma.  Here’s an example:

The charts in the survey contrast what people on disability get now:

ODSP amount per year (basic needs + max shelter)
Single Adult                 $13,536
Couple with 2 Children  $21,852

with what they would get in the Pilot

Estimated basic income amount per year (at 75% LIM) + $500 per month disability add-on

Single Adult                $22,989
Couple with 2 Children $39,979

Sounds like expensive pie-in-the-sky stuff, right?

WRONG.
UBI costs less ~ maybe 25 billion dollars less ~ than Ontario spends now.  

How does that work?  

Watch the video in my Basic Income playlist or check out

Basic Income Waterloo.  

Their idea that Waterloo Region would be a perfect place for a pilot so if you live here, feel free to suggest that WATERLOO REGION should be a
Pilot Test Site when you do the survey.