Martti Hetemäki, the permanent secretary at the Ministry of Finance, is concerned that the proposed basic income schemes could discourage recipients from finding employment. The introduction of a basic income system would inevitably reduce the rate of employment in Finland, warns Martti Hetemäki, the permanent state secretary at the Ministry of Finance. A lower employment rate, in turn, would erode the tax base and consequently compromise the funding of public services and social security benefits, he argues in a column published on the website of the Ministry of Finance on Tuesday . Hetemäki instead expresses his support for the […]
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