I'm sure you have a reputable link for this exciting information. :/




/e Yang's theory on how to pay for this UBI, is to raise everyone's taxes by 15%, including the biggies like Amazon. In other words take away their deductions, and expect them to stay in the US.

So... you (the average person) pay 50% of your income in taxes...and get $1000/month back. Sounds just like another Obama plan. Here's the world, and there's no one to pay for it.



/e So, let's say you make $80,000 a year, you give $40,000 in taxes and get $12,000/year back. Seems like a net loss of $28,000/ year. If you think you can't afford college, healthcare, etc., now, when you only pay ~ 33% in taxes... well I've got news for you.


His plan assumes the giant companies will just agree to this for everyone's well being. They won't. They'll move out of the US. They can afford to do things like that.

This post was edited by Ghot on Apr 22 2019 03:27am

It replaces existing benefits for a start, so that number is drastically lower.

No, that number is just for the $1000/month crap. I haven't EVEN begun to calculate what giving EVERYONE Medicare will cost.



/e Side note: He also wants to legalize marijuana (which is cool) and opiates (which isn't). No one will even notice his BS when they all on heroin. :/

This post was edited by Ghot on Apr 22 2019 03:52am

A lot less than the current system.

Oh, now that I see your calculations, I completely understand. :/

You have one entity with enormous bargaining power doing all the negotiations that has the power of regulation behind it.
Next step is allowing generics.

I'll say it really slowly...

S O C I A L I S M--D O E S N ' T--W O R K.

/e P.S. Vocabulary is NOT calculations.





This post was edited by Ghot on Apr 22 2019 04:01am

What the hell does healthcare have to do with socialism?
I think you have no idea what the word even means.
I literally live in a country with free healthcare for all that ranks consistently above yours in life quality.

This post was edited by Plaguefear on Apr 22 2019 04:04am

Obamacare was a failure. It was enacted without a means to pay for it.

In smaller countries... very high taxes, in a capitalist system with a welfare state... seems to work. On a very short scale so far.
If you have actual NUMBERS showing how to make it work for 327 million people, all at the same time. I'm all ears.

Australia can exist, with it's systems, BECAUSE the US exists. The $700 billion a year we spend on the military helps to keep Australia... not Chinese.



/e As it stands, we're all probably gonna lose to the Chinese... eventually.

This post was edited by Ghot on Apr 22 2019 04:12am

Lol dumbest thing i ever read.