This is the flip side of the robot revolution.
Nixon was for it? no, he skunked the guy who was for it. PFFFFFFFT! Phooey, McGovern was for it and he won, what, 1 state?
Imagine five college students sharing an apartment bringing in $60,000 per year. They’ll be talking vacations while I am working.
Bump for later
Ah, progressives.
The only idea they have (have had, and ever will have) is “we can give you stuff that we’ll take from others”.
The tipping point sill come and we’ll get the pleasure of giving progressives stuff which they really do not want.
“He says everyone from MLK to Milton Friedman to Richard Nixon were for it.”
Just like Jessica Tarlov on Faux...I mean Fox News this AM said the majority of Americans want illegal aliens to be able to stay in America. I guess your brain doesn’t survive too well if your head is stuck some place where there is no Oxygen.
He’s flat-out lying. That is not what Friedman favored.
This random candidate is literally polling N/A in the Democratic primary, who really cares what he has to say?
A dangerous and truly stupid idea that will lead to a permanent underclass which will be fore sale to the highest bidder.
Trust me, I read all the stuff from these guys. THEY ARE PISSED.
Seriously, half the American public is incapable of seeing what is stupid about the “universal basic income.”
"Presidential candidate Andrew Yang is campaigning on the platform of Universal Basic Income."
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
I don’t know what post-FDR era law school Mr. Yang got indoctrinated at, but I hope that somebody besides him or his family paid tuition.
Ignoring politically correct interpretations of the Constitution’s General Welfare Clause (1.8.1), Mr. Yang's law school evidently doesn't teach that the states have never expressly constitutionally delegated to the corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification feds the specific power to establish universal basic income, social spending programs uniquely up to each state.
"10th Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
In fact, a constitutional lawmaker and previous generations of state sovereignty-respecting Supreme Court justices had indicated that it is ultimately up to the legal majority voters of a given state to decide if their state can experiment with things like taxing and spending for universal basic income.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States."Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"The power to regulate manufactures, not having been confided to congress, they have no more right to act upon it, than they have to interfere with the systems of education, the poor laws, or the road laws, of the states [emphases added]. Congress is empowered to lay taxes for revenue, it is true; but there is no power to encourage, protect, or meddle with manufactures." —Joseph Story, Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1, Commentaries on the Constitution 2
”... the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Federal Constitution, is in the States, and not in the Federal Government [emphases added].” —Rep. John Bingham, Congressional Globe, 1866. (See about middle of 3rd column.)
"It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.” — Justice Brandeis, Laboratories of democracy.
So by campaigning on universal basic income, Mr. Yang is unthinkingly trying to unconstitutionally expand the already unconstitutionally big federal government’s powers imo.
Remember in November 2020!
MAGA!
And the surprise is that after a while, anyone making more than $1K a month has to turn the “excess” over so it can be dispersed...
Didn’t Bill Clinton use the words “peace dividend”?
Funny how the left loves dividends when they can be used to buy votes. But a corporation making a profit and returning some of that back the shareholders is wrong.
When can I get my $1k? Can I get more if I use different names and different spellings or if I borrow a few of obamy’s SSN?