Finland plans on creating a universal income system for all of its citizens. What do you make of this?

It is fine for them. They are a small country with a high trust society. The only way it will work is if they continue to kick out their refugees and maintain their homogeneity and culture. In a situation of increased automation and decreasing birthrates, and you already have a wealthy and educated populace, this could be a sensible policy. This policy would be a disaster if it were to be adopted worldwide however.

A link to the specifics would be nice. My questions would be how this is funded. Is it funded by the revenues gained from production on public land, like Alaska's permanent dividend, or is this just a matter of robbing the more successful citizens in order to pay ne'er-do-wells?

Yeah, that's great. Finland's population is 5.43 million. Would love to know how exactly they are going to pay for these stipends as nothing is ever truly "free".

yeah,

President Cheney planned to steal all IraqNam's oil

That "pre-existing allowance" comes from taxes. It ain't free. If more and more people decide that they're cool with the allowance, that will reduce the tax base, ultimately reducing the per-capita allowance.

It would be nice, but if you read about this, the plan actually falls short.

For the same reason that perpetual motion machines don't exist.

Uh,who's paying for all this? Let me guess,the working people are supporting the non-working people.We already have that!

Yeah that'll work...LOL