Comments by "" (@thehumanity0) on "Dave Chappelle Argues For Andrew Yang In Iowa" video.

Bernie's corruption plan already incorporates public financing/vouchers. That's already a point of ideological agreement, except Bernie goes further in wanting to push for a Constitutional Amendment to remove money from politics.
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Rest of the world has healthcare. Healthcare is a human right, 12k is a privilege for living in the richest country on Earth.
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Chappelle has been very upfront with how he enjoys his status in the 1% (he doesn't pretend otherwise). Just like in the case of Elon Musk, they won't take the extra step to Bernie because they are very comfortable with their current position in life. Bernie wants to flip the entire game board over and that's too much for them.
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@IoOrganism In other words, Yang's endorsement wouldn't be able to effectively counter a Mayor Pete endorsement to Biden, because 42% of his voters won't be voting for anyone Yang gives his endorsement to.
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@dray_dnt_hate2177 "Bernie does not support the Democracy Dollar." Bernie's corruption plan already incorporates public financing (aka what Yang calls "Democracy Dollars"), it goes beyond Democracy Dollars though because it targets reversing court cases like Buckley v Valeo, Citizens United, etc. and it also focuses implementing a Constitutional Amendment to get money out of politics. You are just 100% dead wrong on that point.
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@Landgraf43 "yangs plan to combat climate change is much better" Do you even know what Yang's plan is? One of his primary policies to curb Climate Change is a regressive carbon tax, in other words, the same thing that France was just rioting over with Yellow Vest marches after Macron just implemented his own regressive carbon tax on the people. Yang's VAT tax is also regressive. Half the taxes he wants to implement are literally regressive on the people.
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Has who scared?
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Which is why when someone says people would rather have $1,000 over healthcare, Kyle gets emotional and says "I would force my loved ones to take the healthcare". Sometimes people will choose drugs over food, an ipod over a healthy body. We need to make people have the bare minimum to survive in a civilized society before talking about handing people money (that many people still won't be able to pay their medical bills with unless we have single payer anyway).
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You can be 100% sure that if Bernie incorporated UBI into his platform he would remake it just like he did for the Green New Deal (which was originally a mess). It would likely trade the regressive VAT tax for a more progressive tax that targets the 1% and corporations that benefit off automation & outsourcing the most.
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If Bernie incorporated UBI into his platform, you can bet your ass it would be updated to be more progressive. Imagine instead of a regressive VAT tax it would be funded by a progressive tax, capital gains tax, tax on Wall Street, etc. Just like how Bernie made the Green New Deal better when he added it to his platform, a Bernie UBI would actually target the top 1% and work to radically redistribute wealth (my main issue with Yang's current UBI is that it does not work towards fixing income inequality enough at all).
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Bernie's Job Guarantee is primarily linked to the Green New Deal and creating jobs around renewable energy as coal and oil are phased out. Considering it as the equivalent to UBI is silly. C'mon Kyle you should know better than this. At least when Chappelle compares UBI to Medicare for All, it actually makes sense from an economical standpoint.
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@Coheenez We would all be targets of the VAT, that's why it's a regressive tax. UBI is not very effective in being a "large systemic change" when it is entirely offset by slashing & eliminating social programs and a VAT that we would all end up paying back into. It's especially less effective when you don't couple it with a Single Payer healthcare system that offers healthcare free at the point of service.
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@Coheenez It's common sense. Freedom Dividend forcefully replaces social programs. The only people who will stay on their current assistance are people (like a single mother with 4 kids) who are already receiving more than $1,000 a month in assistance. The people simply on $1 - $999 of SSI, TANF, SNAP, EITC, housing assistance, etc will have little choice but to switch over because what, you're not going to choose more money? Not to mention when these people switch over, they're already initially receiving less income from the deal than someone whose well off or not receiving assistance. Those people not on assistance will receive $1,000 and not lose any benefits that amounts to savings in your bank account. The people on assistance are getting partially screwed compared to the deal given to people who are lucky enough to not have to rely on assistance.
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@codeslob2464 I'm sorry that happened to you, but it seems like your priorities are really confused. If you were living in a Single Payer country like Canada, I guarantee you wouldn't have gotten "denied" from paperwork. The reason it's important to do Medicare for All is that a full Single Payer system takes the paperwork out of government. You walk into a hospital, you are treated and you leave. No copays, no premiums, no deductibles, no talking to the insurance company to try to figure out if they'll cover you - you're already covered and everyone is in one single pool. If you need elective surgery (surgery that is not urgent), then you are placed in a queue based on which patients need the most care the fastest. Yang is not offering a Single Payer system, he is offering a public option at best. This will leave the for-profit insurance companies in a place of power and people will continue to die from inefficiencies in the system. I suggest you do more research on Medicare for All, it is called the "gold standard" for a reason. The reason our healthcare system is so screwed up today is that insurance companies profit $100 billion per year from our healthcare system. You need to take the profit motive out of healthcare entirely or else people will continue to die at the expense of insurance CEOs making billions of dollars.
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@Tangaxuan You'll be voting against your own interests from now until the end of time. Good plan.
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