It's functionally different from SS for two reasons: it won't be exclusively for politicians and boomers
I absolutely do agree that unified programs that don't set most people against each other are better (on any given week, you should be able to recall me bitching about some weak ass means-testing the lanyards cooked up to waste our time and mental bandwidth with). There's no reason it can't just be Universal Social Security just like there's no reason there can't be Universal Medicare.
Also gotta love how there are actual
policies on Yang's website. Practically all the other candidates are like "lol I ain't doing jack shit!"
Wish there was a goal of - "Transform the democratic party and what is possible by gutting their leadership like I did when I was mayor 3,000 years ago", though. That would be enough to elevate him above a soft distant #2 for me. You yourself understand an UBI implemented by this congress would be very very bad, right?
Try 10% on every single purchase made on Amazon. That'll be more than enough.
Okay, 10% sales tax on Amazon's revenue...
232.88 billion (worldwide, the sales just in the US would be a bit lower) divided by 10 is 23.288 billion. Let's say the benefit goes to 100 million people? That's $232.88 per person per year.
Don't get me wrong, "how are we gonna pay for it" is the least important question. Every time they raise the offense budget by billions, they just fucking do it. I'm just not as particularly fond of a sales tax when eating the rich is always on the menu.
quash wrote:The IRS would be considered a terrorist organization if it weren't for the fact that our government supports them.
See what I mean?
You're not allowed to criticize the military.
You're not allowed to criticize the police.
You're not allowed to criticize the church.
You're not allowed to criticize the mass murderer who has a statue in the town square.
You're not allowed to criticize the judge who goes easy on rich pedophile rapists but hard on pot users.
The IRS though? Fuck'em. Vultures!
That's what we're talking about when it comes to a monoculture curated through the shared simulated world of television. You're supposed to absolutely
hate the IRS. That's what They want from you.
It's extremely lucrative.