Comments by "" (@TheHuxleyAgnostic) on "How To Spot Grifters On The Left" video.
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@Addamo Dore has been slandering people who have done more for M4A in a few years than he has in his entire lifetime. He promotes the third party route, that hasn't won the most popular third party a single seat in congress in its near 50 year existence, peddling some fantasy where third parties are incorruptible and will only produce perfectly perfect candidates ... you know, like Kyrsten Sinema. He did, in fact, promote Tulsi over Bernie, which you're just lying about. He didn't care if 10m of the poorest Americans were thrown off Medicaid expansion, didn't care to try and add 40m older Americans to Medicare expansion, did support the "medicare choice" candidate over the M4A candidate, and then turned around and made himself out to be the one true champion of healthcare, because he came up with a stupid way to get a 100% guaranteed to fail performance art vote. He argued that Trump filling multiple scotus seats was as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan (wrong). He promoted Trump as the better option than Clinton, vastly overestimating the benefits, claiming it would lead to progressives "for sure" taking the house and senate in 2018 (wrong) and the presidency in 2020 (wrong), and vastly underestimating the risks, claiming even Republicans would join the left and vote against a Trump agenda rather than follow him into all out fascism (wrong).
If he's not a grifter, then he's a complete and utter moron. Either way, he benefits the far right more than the left.
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@ToxicAudri The details of how a UBI is paid for is important, and he kept saying that giant corporations would pay into it, and kept comparing his dividend to the Alaskan dividend, which is entirely paid for by oil companies. The thing is that a VAT is specifically designed to NOT tax businesses in order to avoid double taxation (which would be worse anyway). Yang even posted a link to a pass through rate study that he didn't grasp, or lied about. What it actually showed was a near 100% pass through on standard rated goods and services. It was only by adding lesser rated and zero rated goods and services that the pass through rate dropped. Yang claimed that indicated businesses were paying for a large portion of the tax, when it actually meant that a large portion had less tax or no tax (zero rated are staples that people buy most). The final consumer was still paying the entire VAT.
Without corporations paying for it, or even into it, then all they get is the benefit of extra trillions being spent. Instead of taxing Amazon, as Yang said, they would make extra tens of billions a year, which would make Bezos extra billions a year. He could buy a brand new $500m yacht, every year, pay $50m in VAT, and still have extra billions left over. Also, in a future that's increasingly automated, you can't have increasingly unemployed consumers paying for their own UBI. You need corporations to pay the people, like the Alaskan dividend he kept comparing his to, like he kept saying it should be. His words didn't match his actual plan.
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