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tacocat  ·  1324 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 'bl00's Reviews: The War on Normal People by Andrew Yang

He said as much in an interview with Dave Rubin who has a conservative audience but other times he's been evasive or contradicted that interview. As a single person I might be able to make it on $12k a year but also my roommate is on disability, food stamps and supplemental housing and dude ain't exactly making it so maybe I couldn't. Add a few kids and you're SOL





kleinbl00  ·  1324 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Again, the idea is to "might be able to make it" such that if you can pull in $75 a week on Taskrabbit that's an extra $300 a month. Meanwhile it didn't take you 40 hours a week to pull down $1500.

Add in a few kids and you add in a few $1200 checks. Take it from me - my little bundle of joy is hella more than $1200 a month. But a single mom with three kids is going to do better by society at $4800 a month, let alone the kids.

tacocat  ·  1324 days ago  ·  link  ·  

He's not even consistent on who gets the payment. I'm not super into arguing for things I basically support by way of political feasibility so I'm not going down that route. I support Yang insofar as he brings some interesting ideas to the fore but dude is just not anywhere near me on the political spectrum

kleinbl00  ·  1324 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I feel you, dawg. I personally am growing more and more convinced that discussing politics along one axis is doing us all dirty.