In Spain, they want to distribute money to citizens because of coronavirus. In Russia, the authorities prefer "not to shoot reserves." And this is explainable!

On April 5, the Minister of Economy of Spain Nadia Kalvigno said that in the context of the Pandemia of Coronavirus and the Economic Crisis, the government of the country will accelerate the introduction of unconditional basic income. First of all, the Spanish authorities want to "support families."

The idea of ​​paying benefits that provide the minimum needs of all citizens of the country for food and housing is not new. Five years ago, in 2015, the Government of Finland financed an experiment during which two thousand citizens of the country for a couple of years gave out money without any conditions.

In 2016, the question of introducing an unconditional basic income was carried out to the vote in Switzerland. And by the way, the Swiss voted against such benefits.

Can Russia afford the payment of unconditional main income? Why do the Russian authorities in a crisis evade even one -time measures of large -scale support of citizens? For example, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that due to large-scale assistance to citizens, they can “crack budgets”. The economist answers these questions in the podcast “what happened”.

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