Libertarian or Conservative, I just want my citizen dividend back.
The Pragmatic Libertarian Case for a Basic Income GuaranteeBy Matt Zwolinski Lead Essay August 4, 2014
The Conservative Case for a Guaranteed Basic IncomeCreating a wage floor is an effective way to fight poverty—and it would reduce government spending and intrusion. NOAH GORDONAUG 6 2014
It's mine. It belongs to me because I own the country. Together with all the other citizens.
The government or state or politicians have no rights to confiscate it.
Unlike taxes with specific tax laws, there is not a single law around for the government to confiscate our citizen dividend.
For example, in South Africa, it is explicitly written in their laws (Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act) that
1. The resources belong to all the people of South Africa.
2. The state is a custodian
3. The state has to provide equitable access to the nation’s mineral and petroleum resources to all the people of South Africa.
Nowhere does the law say the state can simply take the resources revenue and dump it into the government's operating budget.
It certainly looks possible for any South African to demand an equitable share of his or her resources, i.e., a citizen dividend.
Here are the relevant parts from the Act.
The objects of this Act are to-
Unlike taxes with specific tax laws, there is not a single law around for the government to confiscate our citizen dividend.
For example, in South Africa, it is explicitly written in their laws (Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act) that
1. The resources belong to all the people of South Africa.
2. The state is a custodian
3. The state has to provide equitable access to the nation’s mineral and petroleum resources to all the people of South Africa.
Nowhere does the law say the state can simply take the resources revenue and dump it into the government's operating budget.
It certainly looks possible for any South African to demand an equitable share of his or her resources, i.e., a citizen dividend.
Here are the relevant parts from the Act.
CHAPTER 2
FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES
FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES
- Objects of Act
The objects of this Act are to-
(a) recognise the internationally accepted right of the State to exercise sovereignty over all the mineral and petroleum resources within the Republic;
(b) give effect to the principle of the State's custodianship of the nation's mineral and petroleum resources;
(c) promote equitable access to the nation's mineral and petroleum resources to all the people of South Africa;
- Custodianship of nation's mineral and petroleum resources
(1) Mineral and petroleum resources are the common heritage of all the people of South Africa and the State is the custodian thereof for the benefit of all South Africans.
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