Comments by "Mark Armage" (@markarmage3776) on "Andrew Yang Shares His Big Idea For Universal Basic Income | NBC Nightly News" video.

  1. Great, so why don't you go invest in the hobo in San Francisco? Start with your money before you ask people to invest theirs.
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  2. Yeah, kid. Study some actual economics, Milton Freedman never proposed giving free money, he proposed massive removal of public structure so that people can use the money which went to tax to pay for their own. Andrew Yang is advocating for stealing, he will raise the taxes to give people money, and V.A.T, study, Value Added Tax and The Sales Tax is the same thing, we in America don't use V.A.T but we use a sales tax, you're taxing something twice? Moron!
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  3.  Michael Johnson  No, pal, I will loose more to get a thousand. Do some math, money come from an added tax, which are paid by taxpayers, which are only 40-50% of this country, but the 1 thousand is going out to everybody. Go finish middle school.
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  4.  @gilliganwilliams1993  No, pal, VAT is paid by consumers, how old are you? 5th grader? I he apply the tax on product, the people pay for it, learn some math.
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  5. Yeah, that's a lie. Yang's idea is stealing, Friedman's idea is to convert public programs into money and give it to the people. Yang is going to keep the program and give the money at the same time, he's adding a tax, which is already there, VAT and sales tax are the same, so he's raising taxes to pay for the money he's going to give to people who don't pay taxes. Why don't you go learn some math, probably going back and finish middle school.
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  6.  Michael Johnson  Yeah, nice try, pal. Next time get your source from somewhere that isn't Reddit. Here, use your little brain to deduct this, if the people are paying for the money they're given and they still get money, where does the money come from? To people who don't pay taxes, how are they paying for the money they're given? Estimated 2.5 trillion is needed, 10% V.A.T so you're saying that last year, America spent 25 trillions on expenditures? While the country's GDP is 19 trillions. While there are 126 millions households, with the average of 50000 dollars per household, not to mention that the number is that high due to massive numbers at the top. The entire income of households in the country is only 6 trillions. And if your plan is to remove any social benefits to pay for this, people would have to use the same money you've given them to pay for the benefits which they have lost, it's called minus sum game, because you can't leave people to die when they spent away the money that you took from their healthcare. Yeah, REDDIT MATH. Go back to school, kid.
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  7.  Michael Johnson  And public schools, public roads, social security, police, fire department, those are the roles that the people give to the state, public properties that are agreed upon by the majority of the public. Socialism is part where you apply things that nobody agreed upon onto their lives, like that fake math of yours, if the government takes people money to spend on something that doesn't serve their best interest, it's socialism. And that happens all the time, but we allow it because those are small sums or they're necessary and they can't be force upon. But Obamacare, that is socialism, it causes harm and nobody wants it because they're paying not for them, clear, kid?
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  8.  @lucasrencker-usui430  Uh, huh, apparently you don't know a hobo. Go to San Francisco, give the hobo a grant, you'll see how he spend it. Drug dealer next door.
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