Andrew Yang, the Democrat candidate known for his unique “Universal Basic Income” plan, has a deep platform that breaks from traditional Democrat orthodoxy focusing on socialist welfare programs. The Daily Wire reports:
Andrew Yang, an entrepreneur and philanthropist, is a candidate for the 2020 Democratic Party presidential nomination. Yang, who is the only 2020 Democratic presidential candidate to appear on Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro’s “Sunday Special” podcast series (video below), is one of the more heterodox candidates in the present 2020 Democratic field. Yang’s proclaimed public policy stances often mirror those in many of his more traditional competitors’ platforms, but his campaign’s signature policy is a universal basic income proposal — which Yang calls a “Freedom Dividend” — whereby every American receives $1,000 a month. His campaign is thematically centered around his entrepreneur background and is focused on restoring, as Yang sees it, the American dream. According to recent 2020 Democratic presidential polling, Yang polls at 0-3% support.
Yang, who would become the first Asian-American nominee for a major American political party if successfully nominated, lives in New York City with his wife Evelyn and their two children. His parents are Taiwanese immigrants.
Yang, who has never before sought political office, is a graduate of Brown University and Columbia Law School. He briefly worked in private law practice before switching his career trajectory to specialize in the start-up and venture capital space. In 2009, Yang founded the nonprofit group Venture for America (VFA), which describes itself as a two-year fellowship program for recent graduates “who want to work at a startup and create jobs in American cities.” Yang’s work with VFA was lauded by the Obama administration.
Yang is a low polling candidate, but his unconventional vision is something that could reinvigorate the Democrat party that is stuck in old socialist economic thinking. His stances remain left-wing on many issues, but seems more amenable to compromise unlike other Democrat zealots.
This proposal is absolutely ludicrous. Where is the money coming from? Does he expect the workers to pay everything out of their wages? This doesn’t sound fair to me. The workers shouldn’t have to give anything to those who refuse to work. Why should those who desire to a better life have to pay for those who refuse to work for a better life? Taking away from the workers gives no one any Freedoms to have a better life, except those THOSE WHO CLAIM TO BE REPRESENTING THE PEOPLE. THOSE MAKING THE RIDICULOUS LAWS WILL BECOME THE SLAVE OWNERS. GUESS THAT IS WHAT THE DEMOCRATS WANT. THEIR FOLLOWERS ARE NOTHING BUT BRAINDEAD MORONS.
When Finland tried the “universal basic income,” it only served to prove that if you pay people to not work then they will not work. After two years, Finland discontinued the program. Why does anyone have the arrogance and ignorance to imagine that the same program would work differently in the US from how it worked (badly) in Finland?
If Finland couldn’t make it work with a small homogeneous population what makes the Democrat Sociocommunistss think it could work in America with a large portion of the citizens on welfare and an invasion of illegals entering the country with their blessing and promise of health coverage..
First of all if I’m not mistaken, the office of the President has to be a born American citizen. which he is not and that disqualifies him right from the start. The fact that Obama’s mother was under 18 and living on Hawaii at the time she go pregnant. His father wasn’t an American citizen ether, but they got away with it.
He was born in the United States and both of his parents were American citizens. He is a “natural born “ citizen of the US and ,therefore, qualified to run for president.
We could cut the size of the Federal Government by 75% as a srart !
Well Yang is not a piker, I’ll say that much for him. Let see, $1,000 a month, $12,000 a year, times 320,000,000 people in the USA, that comes out to $3,840,000,000,000 a year. Where does he propose to get the money to do this? Idiot!
Easy! He could tax every person $12,000 per year!