Andrew Yang kicks off NYC mayoral campaign with $2,000 basic income proposal for poorest

Yahoo Finance News ^ | 01/14/2021 | Denitsa Tsekova

[progunner]

There ya go all you NYC libs,,,, your savior has arrived.

[Clemenza]

Handing out welfare like Trump and Schumer wanted to.

[BiglyCommentary]

$2000/yr?! That’s not not even months supply of crack. What a loser.

[Mouton]

I agree with that....as long as it is married with getting rid of ATDC, Food Stamps, Rent subsidies, and welfare. Just the overhead costs in running these progroms will be a bundle.

[dangus]

So... who can live on $2,000 a year?

[TexasM1A]

2k a year?, In New York City?, what would that get you a couple of burgers and a beer once a month?

[David Chase]

I hope he beats Cuomo’s a$$!!

[TexasM1A]

Nevermind, miss read it.

[Renkluaf]

NYC is broke with people leaving left & right. Crime has exploded. Where is this dolt going to get the money from?

"Look at the shiny gold thing in my right hand."

[butlerweave]

It would be a Miracle when all the tax payers cut and run

[SkyDancer]

And the money is coming from where exactly?

[ctdonath2]

“ Yang’s plan ... would involve providing roughly 500,000 New Yorkers “who are living in extreme poverty with an average of $2,000 per year.””

... making $12/hr the new $0. Anyone making minimum wage can just quit working and maintain the same standard of living. Sure, a job will profit in addition to that income (not replace it, like unemployment pay does now) ... how many staying at subsistence levels or less will avail themselves of working in addition, vs in exhaustion/sloth simply stop working altogether?

Occurs to me Yang’s plan necessitates open borders to fill abandoned low end jobs (many minwage workers opting to quit work altogether) with people, escaping real poverty and seeing the value of work, willing to take a free check AND work from the bottom up.

[Veggie Todd]

I identify as poor person.

[SaveFerris]

[There ya go all you NYC libs,,,, your savior has arrived.]

That’s pretty much what I was thinking. UBI is going to be a thing, I think, of the NWO. Gotta have everybody in the system.

[ctdonath2]

Gah, I misread year as month. Now I’m confused about what he’s trying to accomplish.

[Tejas Rob]

Democrats gotta keep those ghetto warriors happy, they’re going to need them to do to us what they have planned.

[SaveFerris]

This might be the one time I really take interest in a NYC mayor's race

[SaveFerris]

[extreme poverty]

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[Kid Shelleen]

This makes perfect sense . All they have to do is increase taxes on the remaining 25% of businesses that are still solvent.