Andrew Yang’s version of UBI is to give every American a “Freedom Dividend” of $1,000 per month, $230.79 per week for EVERY American over the age of 18.

“This is independent of one’s work status or any other factor. This would enable all Americans to pay their bills, educate themselves, start businesses, be more creative, stay healthy, relocate for work, spend time with their children, take care of loved ones, and have a real stake in the future.”

~ yang2020.com

Sounds great, right?

…it does, until you look under the hood:

How Yang proposes paying for it is by introducing VAT (Value Added Tax) of 10%, that’s a $100 on every $1,000 you spend! The VAT will hit the middle class the hardest, those making and spending $120K per year break even.

Those who make and spend $40K per year, will really only be effectively getting $8K per year, $153.85 per week.

It’s all about “The Math!”

Not sounding quite so great?

…stick around, it gets worse:

Yang goes on to complaining about spending so much money on welfare programs, SNAP, but he used the Right Wing term: “food stamps” and disability, I s#it you not!

So everyone on Welfare, SNAP, Disability or any other government assistance just gets excluded from the “Freedom Dividend” club, unless they give up their “current benefits”. This further widens the income inequality gap, pushing those less fortunate deeper into poverty.

“ Additionally, we currently spend over 1 trillion dollars on health care, incarceration, homelessness services and the like…”

This idiot thinks that $200ish extra per week solves health care, what?!!

Solves our mass incarceration problem?… Is he for real?

A couple of hundred dollars a week is all someone down in their luck needs to get off the streets? Heh…heh…heh…