Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "COVID Proves Andrew Yang’s UBI Won’t Work" video.

How is equality a libertarian answer?
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@Dasper12 Nobody's saying anything about special classes. You're quite literally defending cutting a check awarded to rich people and excusing it with... "equality". That's Justin Trudeau answer.
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@Dasper12 Don't upvote yourself. It's not a special case against class. Distributing UBI in itself is a special case based on class because nobody ever pretends they just want UBI for UBI's sake. They propose the solution because they think there's a class of people who needs it. The cope is then arguing that there's no need to check who gets it or not to trigger the "don't even think about it, dude" part of people's brains. All in all, UBI is not coming from a place of equality. Taxing money and redistributing it isn't equality. The discriminating laws thing is a massive logical fallacy and honestly it's a severe enough one it should be taken as an admission of loss. The libertarian answer is being libertarian. Not being soft authoritarian. You don't protect liberty with government schemes. UBI is in itself collusion and a crony agreement between the capitalist class. Think about it. If you get UBI you will spend more on certain consumer goods but many products and services will not have their sales doubled because people have no use for two of them. You won't pay two phone subscriptions or fill your car with twice the gas, if gas still hasn't been banned at that point, it's just an example. There's your inequality right there. A massive transfer of wealth to sectors that benefit from repeated consumption.
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@Dasper12 Someone just decided to check up on a 3 week old thread and upvote the """"libertarian"""" virtue signaling for UBI. "The government has the right to tax" - Not an argument. The government also says the police are not required to protect you. Just because it's the law doesn't mean it's right or even consistent. "So libertarian answer is being Libertarian as in Individualism; not anarchist." - This doesn't even make sense. What's the individualist part about a literal welfare state? "Any laws that can be applied with ubiquity to all individuals equally is the most libertarian answer" - No? A law saying that the president had the right to sleep with everyone's wife is equal. But it's not libertarian. Violating rights equally isn't libertarian. "Any consumable good or service will always have the potential to be purchased exponentially more than a static product" - So how do you address the inherent inequality without creating an unequal UBI law? "someone will have significantly more transactions for gas, electricity, restaurants, etc than, say, vacuums or a laptop" - So? You don't cook twice the food on the stove. You don't leave twice the lights on. You don't eat for two at restaurants. But you might buy twice the amount of shirts, a laptop every year instead of once every two years, etc. Your utility companies will be paying a tax, and that money will be injected into other sectors. It's completely unfair. "replace tax credits and bureaucratic and costly social programs." - Yeah, you're not getting rid of those so this is all moot.
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@Dasper12 You're just saying things unrelated to the topic. Make sense of what? You want the state to use the force of guns and jackboots to steal, and call yourself libertarian. That's what needs to be explained, not quoting unrelated Thomas Sowell works.
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