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A Guaranteed Minimum Income Scheme for Australia? Some Problems 1
Author(s) -
Saunders Peter
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
australian journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1839-4655
pISSN - 0157-6321
DOI - 10.1002/j.1839-4655.1976.tb00569.x
Subject(s) - social security , project commissioning , scheme (mathematics) , harmony (color) , poverty , work (physics) , system integration , publishing , economics , public economics , sociology , computer science , political science , economic growth , engineering , mathematics , law , market economy , mechanical engineering , art , mathematical analysis , visual arts , operating system
The integration of the income taxation and social security systems is implicit in a guaranteed minimum income scheme. Some of the issues involved in this integration are highlighted. The two systems have developed independently in Australia, mainly because of the fundamentally different roles that the two serve. It is argued that although the two systems should work in harmony, their complete integration will present many great conceptual and practical difficulties which would reduce the effectiveness of both. Thus the poverty problem can be more fruitfully attacked by reform within the existing social security system in Australia than by the introduction of an integrated system.