Just The News: The candidate for NYC mayor has fielded criticism this week for leaving the city with his family during the pandemic.
Former 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang this week kicked off his bid to become the next New York City mayor and began the campaig with his signature universal basic income plan.
“We can eradicate extreme poverty in New York City,” Yang said on “Good Day New York,” a program on a local Fox affiliate. “If you put just a little money in their hands it can actually be what keeps them in their home and, again, avoids them hitting city services that are incredibly expensive.”
Yang’s proposal is a version of his staple campaign promise during the presidential competition, which was to give every American $1,000 a month. The budgetary logistics of his plan were questioned at the time, and again are being questioned now, especially with regard to the perpetually stressed budget of the city.
His revised plan could provide income for half-a-million of the New York City’s poorest residents. read more
NYC deserves a failed socialist prick.
This guy would be an improvement. This has got to be a long fricken nightmare.
Beware of Yang2K
C’mon, man! He’s just on the Digital Money train!
Didn’t we drop a bomb on these people a few years ago?
The NYC street corner drug dealers are on board.
So the taxpayer will be subsidizing New York’s pimps and drug dealers? That’s a plan that can’t possibly backfire.
Tsunami, no, that was the Germans bombing Pearl Harbor. Geesh.
Give them $30,000 a year and tax them $40,000 a year…
B R I L L I A N T !
The next candidate will propose $1100 a month, and we’re off to the races…
“If you put just a little money in their hands…”
…they will use it to buy booze, heroin, and whores, and then come to the city for their basic needs anyway.
“…it can actually be what keeps them in their home…”
…well, since they are generally living rent-free in some form of public housing, Section 8, or in the case of homeless in 5 star hotels, probably not a factor.
“…and, again, avoids them hitting city services that are incredibly expensive.”
…left unsaid is WHY city services are incredibly expensive, what with high-paying political patronage cush jobs running them, public unions filled with political hack bosses that “negotiate” with other political hack bosses, insanely generous pensions, embezzlement, an just plain old graft, and that’s BEFORE you get to the “donations” the Unions make to the Democrats who made all of the foregoing possible…
Why be held to any personal standards of accountability when the new regime will provide your every need?
Pelosi: “You can be a photographer or writer, start your own business bla bla bla”
Tax the rich….stop me if you’ve heard this one before.
“We can eradicate extreme poverty in New York City,”
Not without understanding how you created it in the first place, and stopping doing what you did that created it first.
Whatever. Despite Yang’s wealth, the NYC mayoral clown car is almost full with 30 “hopefuls”. They all look just like what NYC needs. I’m guessing they choose the absolute worst one and then re-elect him/her/zi/zir. Who do you like? https://www.curbed.com/article/everyone-running-for-new-york-city-mayor.html
…the only thing that decides the race 8s who programs the voting machines, and for what.
Nothing else matters.
Dominion has dominion.
Ya left out Lottery tickets Supernightshade. Folks love them some Lottery tickets.
So does he plan to tax the people who fled NYC for other States? That should work out. Oh, but I loved him on Star Trek. Her was the queer Lieutenant Sulu, right?
A family of four gets $96,000/year for existing? Why produce anything but more $24,000 money makers? Well, at least until the money and food and everything else runs out.
He has the better odds against the republican candidate Mr Yin.
Confucius say “Yang has no Ying”!