re: Is Andrew Yang for Real?

The more fundamental question is the human NEED to be productive. It's simply not something that can be replaced with a check as it fulfills a very primary psychological role in the lives of the vast majority of men. It also is an indispensable tool (like family) for creating a sense of meaning and teaching virtue. Labor is essential to who we are as men.

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I'm shocked this dude hasn't embraced something common sense when it comes to taxes, like the National Retail Sales Tax.

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A national sales tax (passed only as a replacement for the income tax) would be the best way to go.

It too would never pass because of the human aspect. The accounting lobby has lots of stroke in Congress, taking away the income tax quagmire would neuter them.

There's also the aspect that it would be a new idea and new ideas can be scary. Politicians love scary things to frighten people into voting for them so just to push a national sales tax in lieu of income taxes would be as big a circus as the Kavanaugh nomination.

Finally, it would necessitate that members of Congress be more knowledgeable of economics and focus less on the class warfare of identity politics. We have politicians that are "terrified" by their garbage disposal or think that an island can "tip over", wanting them to be able to at least understand economics might be a herculean task of itself.

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A national sales tax (passed only as a replacement for the income tax) would be the best way to go.

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Even without Congress' consent, it could be done with a Convention of States. Strike the 16th amendment, and implement the NRST in place of the income tax. When the experts who wrote it called it the biggest transfer of power since the Declaration of Independence, they weren't kidding.

ETA - Congressional term limits could be done the same way, ditto for repeal of the 17th Amendment to revoke popular election of Senators.

Just as a clarification, he’s not proposing doing away with any welfare programs.

If your monthly benefit is already more than $1000, you would have the option to keep all the welfare and therefore not receive the ubi. The rolls would therefore shrink as people getting less than a $1000 benefit would obviously opt out in favor of the ubi.

This avoids all the political fights associated with cutting any specific ones of the 800ish social welfare programs. Instead, they can just die on the vine from disuse.

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Could that bottom pic be anymore fake Different shades of blue with the pants and coat Stylish

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Technically...

That is a blue blazer and grey pants.

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What are you blabbering about? He knows corporate governance he comes from that background being an entrepreneur.

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That is even more embarrassing for him, then. Specifically, he said that the “Freedom dividend” is the same thing as a corporate dividend. That cannot be more wrong. If a corporation had the United States financials and issued a dividend, not only would it be an illegal distribution, but the board of directors would face personal liability for it. That is basics of corporate governance. Embarrassing Yang thinks that.

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Is Andrew Yang for Real?

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give every American adult a guaranteed monthly $1,000 check

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Nope.

No way in hell an Asian is that bad at math.

Labor is essential, Yang's point is that much of what you and we consider labor can be automated and will be automated in the future. Machines/Computers need electrical energy to function and derive that from many sources created by man. Man needs food for energy to exist and much of that can and will be automated... Everything is slowly becoming integrated electronically and a lot of machines can adapt to their environment. If we eventually build something that is self aware, can utilize longterm memory, with immediate processing, bridge the gap and has the processing capabilities as humans or close if it is plugged into the grid then we are totally screwed. We will have to destroy them guerilla style and revert back to an agrarian civilization. Dude is a futurist and I love to think about things like this. I'm all for importing finite natural resources because i think of a reality where those resources are used up abroad and we are hoarding them. It will make us even more powerful than today... granted that is 200+ years from now but we as a society are going to have to evolve quickly in the very near future. Population growth is going to put a huge strain on food resources. urban farming is going to have to grow equally as rapid.

regardless we don't need a futurist running the country. Let the markets evolve and have the govt provide infrastructure only where needed.

Now this is quality shilling. I'll put a note in your performance review.