Economics Volume II: Modern Economic ProblemsFetter, Frank A. (Frank Albert)
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Economics Volume II: Modern Economic Problems
Fetter, Frank A. (Frank Albert)
Economics
There should be a unification of various kinds of insurance in one
general plan and under one general administration for the whole state.
This should be done with full regard to the actuarial differences in
costs as among various kinds of insurance, various trades, various
establishments, and, to some extent, even the various individuals, so
as to ascertain the costs and to distribute them equitably.
Only in this way can provision be made for entire mobility of labor,
so that men may not be bound, as a condition for obtaining benefits,
to continue in the service of any one employer. To this end there
should be interstate comity and coöperation, so that the insured could
at any time transfer his actuarial equity from one state to another.
§ 17. #The contributory principle#. The contributory principle should
be adopted, and both employers and wage-earners contribute to the cost
in equal amounts. But further, the general public interests may
be recognized through the payments in aid of the funds (subsidies,
subventions). Both employers and employees usually seek to escape
the burden, by getting the state to bear the whole expense[5] or by
getting the other party to pay all or the larger part. But it is much
to be desired that in large part the finances of a system of social
insurance should be disassociated from the ordinary budgetary system
of taxation and public expenditures. The fundamental reason why the
premiums should be divided between employers and employees is that
this is most favorable to the equal participation and coöperative
efforts toward reducing the risk, and developing right industrial
and political relations. Everywhere it is the practice to provide for
representation nearly in proportion to contributions.
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