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Comment by Ilkka Kaukoranta
chief economist of the Central Organization of Finnish Trade Unions (SAK)
The model being tested in Finland is impossibly expensive, since it would increase the government deficit by about 5 per cent.
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(2017)
2y ago
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Verification History
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Verified the quote via web search. Multiple sources (BIEN, HuffPost Canada, Bloomberg/Independent reporting from Feb 2017) confirm Ilkka Kaukoranta, chief economist of SAK, said: "The model being tested in Finland is impossibly expensive, since it would increase the government deficit by about 5 per cent." I could not directly fetch independent.co.uk (blocked) or zerohedge/BIEN (403), but the identical wording appears in multiple independent reports of the same Bloomberg story by Raine Tiessalo. Fixed a typo in the stored content: "tasted" -> "tested". The vote "against" correctly aligns with Kaukoranta's clear opposition to implementing a universal basic income. Author attribution (chief economist of SAK) is correct. Year 2017 retained — no more recent UBI quote from Kaukoranta on this topic was found; he left SAK around 2025.
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-7
· 8d ago
replying to Ilkka Kaukoranta