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Developments and letters

August 2018

While reading the newspapers, I once came across the phenomenon of "basic income": an income for which there is no quid pro quo, such as work. In several countries there were experiments with this.

It seemed to me that Statia is isolated enough to be seen as a testing ground. Perhaps it is possible to experiment here with something like the Basic Income.

To this end, I wrote several letters in August 2018:

• a forwarding of my letter to the government commissioner and his deputy, to the Committee on Kingdom Relations and just like that to the Committee on Social Affairs and Employment (both from the House of Representatives) and...
• one to the editor of the column the game and the marbles of the Volkskrant: Mr. Kalshoven; he responded by sending me his column of 23 May 2015 in which he indicated that he was not a fan of the Basic Income.

Apart from Mr Kalshoven's reaction, I have not received any substantive reaction from the Lower House.