Andrew Yang

jecornel

RaceBannon said:

UBI is the hook like the wall

Would you rather have a wall or a thousand bucks a month?

No tie. Comfortable in in his own skin and an idea that separates him from the pack

It's why he's gaining traction. The lesson of Trump is not to he obnoxious and tweet too much it's to be who you are.

Most of the dems are the typical robots programmed to not say anything

Nailed it.

Southerndawg

GrundleStiltzkin said:

So a metric fuckton of new taxes

Nailed it.

WilburHooksHands

GrundleStiltzkin said:

So a metric fuckton of new taxes

Financial transaction tax is negligible, carbon tax will incentivize businesses to at least try, as we’ve said time after time VAT shouldn’t affect costs to a level that UBI cant offset and then some. Imo these are all on larger businesses that can shoulder them. Houston said its robbing from the lower class to help the middle, but the way I read it its using big business to generate rev for middle and lower class. Yangs entire platform and focus before this has been to stimulate SMBs and entrepreneurship in places other than the coasts.

HoustonHusky

GrundleStiltzkin said:

So a metric fuckton of new taxes

That disproportionately hit the poorest in society (VAT and inflation).

RaceBannon

Carbon tax is no deal

Fucks the working poor hard

And dry

HoustonHusky

WilburHooksHands said:

GrundleStiltzkin said:

So a metric fuckton of new taxes

Financial transaction tax is negligible, carbon tax will incentivize businesses to at least try, as we’ve said time after time VAT shouldn’t affect costs to a level that UBI cant offset and then some. Imo these are all on larger businesses that can shoulder them. Houston said its robbing from the lower class to help the middle, but the way I read it its using big business to generate rev for middle and lower class. Yangs entire platform and focus before this has been to stimulate SMBs and entrepreneurship in places other than the coasts.

VAT and carbon taxes are the most regressive type of taxes around. Add to that an injection of inflation for those services and you are literally robbing the poor to give to the rich. Especially since the last interview I saw with Yang he specifically said that current government benefits will be deducted from your $1,000/month (ie the poorest don’t get any more yet are now stuck paying VAT taxes).

It is literally stealing from the poor to give money to the middle class.

WilburHooksHands

HoustonHusky said:

GrundleStiltzkin said:

So a metric fuckton of new taxes

That disproportionately hit the poorest in society (VAT and inflation).

Inflation is real but VAT and carbon tax arent going to cost low income individuals $12,000 a year. Not sure why the 12 grand a year (per 18 year old citizen, not per household) coming back keeps getting ignored? Those taxes won’t be a drop in the bucket of the 24k my household would get.

jecornel

HoustonHusky said:

WilburHooksHands said:

GrundleStiltzkin said:

So a metric fuckton of new taxes

Financial transaction tax is negligible, carbon tax will incentivize businesses to at least try, as we’ve said time after time VAT shouldn’t affect costs to a level that UBI cant offset and then some. Imo these are all on larger businesses that can shoulder them. Houston said its robbing from the lower class to help the middle, but the way I read it its using big business to generate rev for middle and lower class. Yangs entire platform and focus before this has been to stimulate SMBs and entrepreneurship in places other than the coasts.

VAT and carbon taxes are the most regressive type of taxes around. Add to that an injection of inflation for those services and you are literally robbing the poor to give to the rich. Especially since the last interview I saw with Yang he specifically said that current government benefits will be deducted from your $1,000/month (ie the poorest don’t get any more yet are now stuck paying VAT taxes).

It is literally stealing from the poor to give money to the middle class.

There is no middle class.

jecornel

Elon Musk just came out in support of Andrew.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/456967-elon-musk-i-support-yang

HoustonHusky

jecornel said:

HoustonHusky said:

WilburHooksHands said:

GrundleStiltzkin said:

So a metric fuckton of new taxes

Financial transaction tax is negligible, carbon tax will incentivize businesses to at least try, as we’ve said time after time VAT shouldn’t affect costs to a level that UBI cant offset and then some. Imo these are all on larger businesses that can shoulder them. Houston said its robbing from the lower class to help the middle, but the way I read it its using big business to generate rev for middle and lower class. Yangs entire platform and focus before this has been to stimulate SMBs and entrepreneurship in places other than the coasts.

VAT and carbon taxes are the most regressive type of taxes around. Add to that an injection of inflation for those services and you are literally robbing the poor to give to the rich. Especially since the last interview I saw with Yang he specifically said that current government benefits will be deducted from your $1,000/month (ie the poorest don’t get any more yet are now stuck paying VAT taxes).

It is literally stealing from the poor to give money to the middle class.

There is no middle class.

It’s shrunk to ~50% of the population...must not exist anymore...