He does explain how he pays for it, through new taxes.

But I don’t like the idea that millionaires get this income.

Nor do I agree that those already getting $1000 in assistance should be left out.

If this program is to be implemented, it should be based upon income and need.

People shouldn't be lured with fairy tales.

He does say how the program would be paid for.

He admits that 90% of Harvard students picked plan a - the means tested plan. And admits that plan a has the more progressive tax.

Which begs the question why Yang keeps arguing for plan B, if plan a is both more progressive and easier to “sell” to the public.

And that number is going to keep growing.

Right now those people are / may be eligible for some form of aid or another - but many won't get it. Whether due to the humiliation and stigma, the ridiculous rules, or whatever.

It's easier to sell because we still have this Puritan work ethic mindset. And that's also why we have so many people living on the streets, or in their cars. Progressive tax plans are not helping them. They have not been helping them for decades. I'm ready to try a trickle up economy.

Shows it isn’t an easier sell.

The easier sell is the means tested income plan.

so we should just do that?

You dont want the aid. You’d rather not get anything, then change the message to one that works.

Got it.

And your tax example doesn’t work. The choice isn’t between raising taxes or cutting them. It’s between selling a plan giving additional income...

In which, one way got 90% approval, but because it isn’t plan B language, you Won’t use it, and thus get nothing instead.

We need to get any plan through Congress.

Students at Harvard maybe aren't the best focus group for determining what can be expected to pass.

You did.

And the video you posted showed that 90% of Harvard students agree with me.

If I had a focus group and 90% of respondents said burger A tasted better then burger B, you better believe I’d sell burger A.

If you have a video that shows 90% of Yale students picked plan B, then post it.

Otherwise, I think you should reconsider. Is it the income you care for, or the language used to get it enacted.

Id care for the actual results.

But I do think it is ironic that you seem to be advocating for messaging that's tailored to the opinions of college students.

Is better tailored to getting the income passed.

I don’t think older voters, of which I am one, would prefer B either.

so I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree.

That the very last minority candidate is being judged by Ivy League elitists whose schools have been found to discriminate against East Asians.

It's all about the money as usual.

The Empire has decided that the majority of Imperial Credits should be super concentrated in the hands of 650 American billionaires.

We are going to have to have UBI, sooner than most think. It would literally help every American citizen 18 and over (excepting only during time spent in jail) - how is that somehow not enough?

By exempting necessities, and hiking the VAT on luxury goods, this form of tax along with UBI is one of the most fair and efficient forms of wealth redistribution.

So although yes, Jeff Bezos will be eligible to opt in to his $1000/mo dividend, he will be paying in WAY more than that in taxes.

As for existing programs - which are based on income and need - they leave too many people out. That is what we are trying to fix. Only a fraction of people eligible for SNAP / TANF actually get it. Only a fraction who are disabled get disability, and that often takes years. Why continue fucking over people on need, just to prevent the few at the top from getting a fraction of their taxes back in the form of this dividend?

So those in need get it.

I’d rather see that then the Trump family getting a check they don’t need.

for decades.

Obviously the same old same old simply does not work.

We will need UBI eventually regardless - so why wait? Republicans are now championing it. Are we going to let them implement this revolutionary change?

A VAT, like all forms of flat taxes, is regressive. Period. It doesn't matter how much a person pays, it matters how much a person pays as a percentage of their income or wealth.

BTW, fuck Ron Paul.

Also, how do you think European countries pay for their awesome safety net and other social spending?

It astounds me that one of the most un-loopholeable forms of taxation, which almost every other developed country uses BECAUSE it is so hard to dodge, is so demonized here. Oh wait no it doesn't.