What are social cohesion funds?
Since people have equal property rights to their commons, they also have equal rights to the revenues produced by the management of those resources. A percentage of the rent on a depletable commons, collected by the commons trust and paid in taxes to the state, is thus used to generate social cohesion funds. These funds offer a dividend or subsistence income to all citizens, especially to socially marginalized and vulnerable people. Besides providing a dividend, social cohesion funds can be used to subsidize public goods such as social order, safety, security and employment, as well as common goods such as social networks, mutual support, education, personal health and quality of life.
