€10,000 for every 18-year-old: that’s what this Dutch party wants
Dutch political party GroenLinks wants every person who turns 18 to receive “starting capital” from the government. An appropriate amount, thought GroenLinks, would be a casual €10,000.
The newly-pronounced adult can then use the fat stack of cash for their own development, think paying tuition fees, retraining (the government knows they’re only 18, right?) or starting their own business.
Groenlinks has presented the plan for next year’s parliamentary elections. Of course, you may question who is footing the yearly €2.2 billion bill of the program. According to the party, Dutch millionaires will pay a ‘solidarity contribution.’
Here’s how that would work: people with assets over a million euros must gift 1% of their assets above one million to the government each year. Owners of more than two million euros will pay 2% on assets over two million. The value of homes in the first millions doesn’t count.
Groenlinks is concerned that people don’t have equal opportunities in the Netherlands. Free money is their attempt to rectify that.
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Another gibbs-you-dat-and-vote-for-me idea taken straight from America. Our politicians are so devoid of ideas, it's pathetic.
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