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    lol at your one asian poster blake not having an opinion this ok guy

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dan Druff View Post
    Okay, so I will admit that I hadn't looked at Yang's plan prior to now because he's not a serious candidate, and he has no chance.

    However, since we are discussing the matter now, I decided to delve into it.

    First off, I see that indeed he's not planning to directly tax the rich in order to get the $2.5 trillion. Actually, it's $2.8 trillion, because the figure of the number of US adults I got was incorrect.

    Anyway, he's planning upon a 10% VAT, which would be a disaster. Some states like California have regions with as much as an existing 10% sales tax, so this would be a huge new sales tax burden. It would also be a regressive tax and hurt the poor most. Laughably, Yang tries to address this by claiming that the prices of manufacturing goods would come down under this plan (???), so it would mostly offset the 10% increase in price. L O fucking L.

    Also, the 10% VAT would fall way short of raising the required money, even with Yang's other proposals such as raising capital gains tax. It would only get about halfway there, according to this study.

    Again, this would also disincentivize minimum wage work. SPIT This tried to claim that it's not equivalent to the 99-week unemployment abused by OSA and others, as unemployment benefits don't allow you to work (at least not on the record), whereas a UBI would allow you to work without penalty. However, I think he's also not understanding how awful and tedious minimum wage jobs tend to be. People are creatures of habit. If a couple is subsisting on $24k per year -- or something close to it -- and they can get the same $24k per year while not working, they will maintain the same lifestyle and not have to work. This won't be true for everyone, but it will be true for a lot. You wrongly assume that they will go work a minimum wage job to make double the money. These jobs suck so much that the people holding them are really doing so out of necessity. Take away the absolute necessity, and a lot of people will simply choose to do nothing, or to take gig/part-time work in order to supplement what they need to get by.

    SPIT This also says that the $1000/month will also replace the welfare system, and will save a lot of money there. However, the entire amount of welfare in the US is about $1 trilion, so Yang is essentially increasing this by a factor of 3. Even if you take all of Yang's awful proposals on how to raise the money, and even if you factor in the $1 trillion in welfare savings, we still fall short.

    There's also the general concept that people are being taxed so everyone can get $12k/year for just existing, and that we will all be paying for lazy, able-bodied people to be able to get by if they simply choose not to work. I find that to be an obnoxiously unfair burden put upon those who put out the effort to work. The welfare system has long been criticized for the same reason, but at least there were some reasonable justifications (such as what to do with the single mother who can't make enough money to pay or childcare while she's at work). Here all of those justifications are out the window. If someone simply chooses not to work, we are going to support them anyway. Terrible.
    I feel like it's just Yangs version of 'we're goin to build a wall and mexico is going to pay for it'.

    UBI isn't a radical idea, but $1k a month in the next 5 years seems like it obviously is. Has he explained how he would implement it? I imagine if lightening struck and he won the best he'd be able to do would be like a $200 'freedom dividend' tax credit every year that wasn't based on income.

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    Recent battleground polls show Trump up on every Democratic candidate in WI, MI, OH, AZ and PA. That is all that matters.

    It's effectively over, Trump will win again and perhaps carry New Hampshire to make it even more decisive.

    Nobody on the planet cares about Ukraine except the media and some beltway obsessers in Washington.

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    One of the things with UBI is, poor people are likely to spend it, stimulating the economy.
    Also likely to cut down welfare fraud but simply removing all welfare and giving "everyone" the money.
    that also cuts down on administration costs and employees needed to administer it.
    Obv give it to citizens 18 or older.


    On the other hand, only have to look how the canadian government fucked the people doing their experiment with it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by blake View Post
    i don't have much of an opinion on this, but yang and others would tell you that with constant advances in robotics and artificial intelligence, there simply won't be nearly as many jobs in the future as there are now. hence the need for a guaranteed income.
    We've heard the "automation will kill jobs" argument for the past 70 years, and it hasn't happened. New jobs were created to replace those that were lost.

    Right now we have a very low unemployment rate. When we start having a true low-end job shortage, then we can talk about UBI. So far that hasn't materialized at all.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tgull View Post
    Recent battleground polls show Trump up on every Democratic candidate in WI, MI, OH, AZ and PA. That is all that matters.

    It's effectively over, Trump will win again and perhaps carry New Hampshire to make it even more decisive.

    Nobody on the planet cares about Ukraine except the media and some beltway obsessers in Washington.
    Actually, it's Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida that are the real battleground states. They won't be stupid enough to vote for Trump again. Trump is causing Republican Governors in red states like Kentucky to lose elections. It's fucking over. The blue wave is coming.


     
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dan Druff View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by blake View Post
    i don't have much of an opinion on this, but yang and others would tell you that with constant advances in robotics and artificial intelligence, there simply won't be nearly as many jobs in the future as there are now. hence the need for a guaranteed income.
    We've heard the "automation will kill jobs" argument for the past 70 years, and it hasn't happened. New jobs were created to replace those that were lost.

    Right now we have a very low unemployment rate. When we start having a true low-end job shortage, then we can talk about UBI. So far that hasn't materialized at all.

    no single post has convinced me more of the need to make an extremely serious run at cashing in on automation killing jobs.
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    Quote Originally Posted by TheXFactor View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by tgull View Post
    Recent battleground polls show Trump up on every Democratic candidate in WI, MI, OH, AZ and PA. That is all that matters.

    It's effectively over, Trump will win again and perhaps carry New Hampshire to make it even more decisive.

    Nobody on the planet cares about Ukraine except the media and some beltway obsessers in Washington.
    Actually, it's Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida that are the real battleground states. They won't be stupid enough to vote for Trump again. Trump is causing Republican Governors in red states like Kentucky to lose elections. It's fucking over. The blue wave is coming.

    Umm, no. There is no blue wave. The economy is huge right now and that is really all anyone cares about. Stay off MSNBC, you will be a lot smarter. Look at the recent battleground polls. Trumps dominating. Did you not follow the 2016 election? I guess not.

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    "Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." - Alejandro Jodorowsky

    "America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers." -- William S. Burroughs

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    Damn it! I’m for Bernie again! He scared me with his anti-billionaire wealth tax plan, but the guy is what America needs right now to start healing itself from the political sickness that lead to Trump becoming president.

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    Were Republicans cowardly or unethical not to go along with [convicting Trump in the second impeachment Senate trial]? No. The smart move was to reject it.

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    remember the papa bush tagline for election was "no new taxes" that was more or less the extent of his platform.

    peep went nuts over this much like when emmeril added garlic to the dish he was cooking by saying "let's kick it up a notch"

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    Johnny Manziel will be the 1st pick in the draft. I truly believe not only will Johnny Manziel be rookie of the year, quite possibly he will be MVP as his style will shock defensive coordinators. Manziel may only be 6 feet tall, but he has size 15 feet. And he has HUGE hands. I know some NFL scouts so I know what I am talking about.



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    Quote Originally Posted by tgull View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by TheXFactor View Post

    Actually, it's Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida that are the real battleground states. They won't be stupid enough to vote for Trump again. Trump is causing Republican Governors in red states like Kentucky to lose elections. It's fucking over. The blue wave is coming.

    Umm, no. There is no blue wave. The economy is huge right now and that is really all anyone cares about. Stay off MSNBC, you will be a lot smarter. Look at the recent battleground polls. Trumps dominating. Did you not follow the 2016 election? I guess not.
    The economy is not what everyone thinks about. A healthy economy is great but those who exist only for the ever increasing profit margin, regardless of how that happens are the least hurt when things change. Joe average is not much different than 20 years ago and neither is Joe boss or Joe bum

    Joe Boss is really happy when he gets Joe average and even Joe Bum agree with him

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    yeah again im inclined to agree; saying the economy is great only goes so far when your base has to lock down 60 hours of work per week and still has to choose between rent, food, or medicine.

    hard to say if they care now, but they will sure as hell care when they start taking out unregulated payday loans to cover utilities.

     
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    Quote Originally Posted by sonatine View Post
    yeah again im inclined to agree; saying the economy is great only goes so far when your base has to lock down 60 hours of work per week and still has to choose between rent, food, or medicine.

    hard to say if they care now, but they will sure as hell care when they start taking out unregulated payday loans to cover utilities.
    sad but true.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheXFactor View Post


    The blue wave is coming.

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    Johnny Manziel will be the 1st pick in the draft. I truly believe not only will Johnny Manziel be rookie of the year, quite possibly he will be MVP as his style will shock defensive coordinators. Manziel may only be 6 feet tall, but he has size 15 feet. And he has HUGE hands. I know some NFL scouts so I know what I am talking about.



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    Have we gotten a TR from Diggy yet?


    Would like an update on how the trailblazer volunteer for Tusli is doing, any interesting stories?

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    Quote Originally Posted by OSA View Post
    Have we gotten a TR from Diggy yet?


    Would like an update on how the trailblazer volunteer for Tusli is doing, any interesting stories?

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    Quote Originally Posted by sonatine View Post
    yeah again im inclined to agree; saying the economy is great only goes so far when your base has to lock down 60 hours of work per week and still has to choose between rent, food, or medicine.

    hard to say if they care now, but they will sure as hell care when they start taking out unregulated payday loans to cover utilities.
    I literally know zero point zero people in that situation. Must be my white privilege, I’m sure they’re everywhere.

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    Quote Originally Posted by nightmarefish View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by sonatine View Post
    yeah again im inclined to agree; saying the economy is great only goes so far when your base has to lock down 60 hours of work per week and still has to choose between rent, food, or medicine.

    hard to say if they care now, but they will sure as hell care when they start taking out unregulated payday loans to cover utilities.
    I literally know zero point zero people in that situation. Must be my white privilege, I’m sure they’re everywhere.
    Those people only exist in the imagination of liberal boomers.

    Another reason Trump will win in a landslide.

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    so are we all agreed that, considering what just happened in the UK, trump's really going to crush the democrat candidate?

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