Andrew Yang: The Full Interview. On UBI, Defunding Police, Cancel Culture, Entrepreneurship, etc.
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- Опубліковано 23 вер 2024
- I don’t bother interviewing most politicians. But Andrew Yang is interesting.
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Former presidential candidate Andrew Yang has left the Democrats to start a “Forward Party.”
He didn’t like some of what the Democrats were doing.
Yang has some good ideas, in my opinion. He also has some not so good ideas.
We covered some of these in a shorter video, but I cut a lot out.
Thanks to Stossel TV, I finally have the chance to make videos as long as I want.
This is my full 50-minute interview.
Did not agree with a lot of what he said but I did enjoy the opportunity to listen to a different perspective. Good interview.
And this is why the Libertarian or centre right these days is so much better than the left. It's rare that you'll find a page from someone clearly on the left where the comments are so respectful of people who disagree with them. I emphasize "these days" because I don't think it was always like this.
I like some of his ideas but his support of Biden and Kamala just to get Trump out of office just shows he has really bad judgment in my opinion.
Edit: also, I was considering sending him some money to help move these conversations into the mainstream, but then I got to the part where he wants to require a license to exercise a fundamental human right and that was the end of the consideration.
And he said he’d get trump out under any means necessary
Like Trump wasn't dishonest about anything? I like yang because he's been open about his policy list including the details, which literally no politician does, not even Trump.
What fundamental human right?
"but his support of Biden and Kamala just to get Trump out of office just shows he has really bad judgment in my opinion."
Just look at you username man
@@iTzTiMeToJuMp bingo
These interviews are needed. I miss actual journalism. I watch old footage of Malcolm X sitting there and debating and clarifying his point of view, with nobody trying to censor him. If he was here doing the same today, the liberal media would have had him drug out into the cancel culture streets and demolished. What a time we live in.
Malcolm x is a rather bad example
@@Cecilia-ky3uw How? He was interviewed and gave his talking points and perspective No censorship. No cancelation. How are his interviews not a good example?
@@maaly8111 Malcolm X is a questionable man
@@Cecilia-ky3uw your vague answer or non answer to my question says it all. Your mindset is based on what you are told and how you feel at any given moment. You probably don't even know Malcolm X's history or ideologies. Just that somebody you prescribed to said he was a bad person. Terrible.
@@maaly8111 maalu8111, nation of islam?
I may not agree with Yang, but I like that he's being given a voice finally
I don'tt agree with everything he said but I think it's worth a try and stop this singularity (fake duality)
I like him a person, he’s genuine and actually has a clue. Can’t agree with all his points but I’m glad he’s going against the duopoly
Ubi is dumb cuz it steals from people just for gov to keep some and give back some. Better to just cut taxes on everyone, and only give money to the poor if anyone.
This is exactly why I support yang too. He gets this.
@@surveyguyor8958 r
I own a tree farm, co-own a saw mill, and do securities litigation consulting. Our tax code is an absolute mess. Just yesterday I got a call from my accountant because they had hours on the phone with the IRS and researching how to treat a patronage credit I got from one of my mortgage companies (a credit union). The IRS was saying to treat it as both a credit to reduce mortgage interest AND common interest, so I would have to pay taxes on the "income" and get less of a credit due to the reduced business expense. That makes absolutely no sense.
no shit! The tax code is an absolute mess! Needs to be totally revamped!
The IRS would loophole it if you were a large corporation with a team of lawyers, accountants, and lobbyists.
Yeah, I was the bookkeeper at a business of 20-ish people and we had a sales tax audit once. It took over a year, I left the job before it was actually finished, and the auditor couldn't answer all of my boss' questions despite it being her job.
How did he not learn during the pandemic that if you pay people whether or not they work, they will mostly choose not to work
That's why people like Yang are dangerous. They see evidence that something is bad and still push for more of it. He's a moron.
They want everyone to live like they have a rich daddy & a trust.
Are you talking about the stimulus checks that everyone got and nobody who got it quit working? Or are you talking about the enhanced unemployment benefits that actually incentivized people to not work? Because neither is UBI.
What's wrong with people not working so hard for the man
We had 1/3 leave work to go on unemployment benefits $750 a week if you had to leave work due to Covid. They still had a job, same hours the managers didn’t issue restrictions , in fact we supplied nearly all eastern NSW toilet paper, so we needed more workers!
Sure no one will accept paid government holidays
Yang, "My goal during the entire 2020 race was to get Trump out of office." You just admitted to being part of the problem. Your goal should have been to get least corruptible, best person for the job in office.
And that would have meant he needed to rally for Trump, a known outsider and not establishment politician. He seemed to double down on his support for Biden by not saying what a train wreck his presidency has been in the first year.
@@swanronson6709 trump a libertarian🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@gladiatorader6814 sure as hell more of one than almost any other politician.
"Least corruptible, best person" still not good enough in this system.
@@jamesbizs there's still better options than him
"I was willing to say and do whatever I had to. To get TRUMP out." Tells me all I need to know about him right there. He will sale his soul to get what HE wants done.
I don’t think Yang would say this about other Republicans. Trump was so uniquely bad for the country that he had to be removed at all costs, even if he had policies that were occasionally better than Democrat policies. He was unstable and a wannabe dictator. Once you understand this, Yang’s comment makes sense.
Yup. Especially without admitting it was a massive mistake after the pipeline cancelation, the flood of illegal immigration and federal government human trafficking, Afghanistan, energy crisis, OSHA mandates, and now Russia Ukraine. I mean was he completely oblivious to the Hunter Biden laptop and the 10% set aside for the “big guy”?
@Ben Dover sold his sole to the Demvil.
Or he has principles which are incongruent with Trump's, and believes his ideas are a better fit for the country... as anyone running for public office would.
@@DMatt343 no just weak
I don't like his views and goals on UBI, but I would respect him for his civility.
"civility" is why our government is overrun with corruption. "It's OK that evil people are in charge because at least they don't make mean tweets".
So your profile picture
Well put.
thats how political parasites act, civility as they steal your wealth and freedoms
I also disagree but it's compelling if it could be done as a package. Could be possible if we get rid of the singularity (fake duality)
"because Trump was erratic" ... um, Andrew? Can you think of any other recent President who might fit that description? A VP, maybe?
Lol let's see we're on the brink of war , sky high gas, other countries not even acknowledging Biden, etc... But trump is erratic
Trump was erratic. Biden is demented and delusional. Big difference.
I think he is still trying to maintain ties with some Democrat party members for his movement. If he tarnishes them outright now, it may do more harm than good. He is not blind about it lol.
Trump will be Putin 2.0 if he wins 2024
Yang seems interesting as a person, and makes some good points, thanks for the interview @John Stossel
The question of why Yang decided to put his word in for Biden + Harris was really important and the answer does not shine a positive Light on him.
Just going for the lesser of two evils seems to be one of the issues that Yang criticizes about the current state, but when push came to shove, he got in line just like all the career politicians. That cost him a lot of believability.
Would be interesting to see his view on it now in hindsight.
For sure. In other words, he literally said : "I'm willing to said whatever I need to get the results I want". AKA Typical politician.
Makes me think he is just trying to pull the liberal independent or undecided voters away from the Republicans. Ranked choice voting is the dream of a totalitarian state with experience in rigging elections.
He helped oust Trump because he was too radical, and thinks Biden and Harris care for the people, now I have to ask question what reality or world does this guy live in?
We do need to change some things about our government but I don't think it's pretty much anything he wants to change has to do with what's going on especially the New world disorder.
One of the things Trump did was open our eyes to what corruption there is in our government and that extreme change needs to be done.
Climate change, what's happening in this country especially is being caused by the spraying of our skies. When you pull water out of the air it's got to fall eventually and that's what's causing the flooding dry up California's water from natural sources such as rain snow it has to go somewhere else and eventually it does fall that creates flooding and there's so much more behind this I won't go into all of it but I think you people understand things such as procession, solar minimum.
You are absolutely correct. Yang claims he wants the Forward Party and the ranking vote to eliminate the "lesser of two evils" but then rallies against Trump and for Biden because of his opinion of Trump (which by the way he does not even cite which Trump policy he did not care for, or maybe he is a "mean tweets" guy too).
I would have respected him a bit more if he just said "I think Biden and Kamala are at least better than Trump, vote for them." Instead of fluffing them up and making it like they were going to work for the people.
For someone who talks alot about entrepreneurs, he sure does want more government control over your lives. A government that can give, can take away.
The government that can give WILL take away.
@@dannygreen7473 nobody cares sadly. it's all about now now now. consume consume consume. then, "good luck kids" "you young generation ruined everything" the baby boomer cycle continues
He's not reducing taxes. He's not decreasing government programs. He's not reducing the national debt.
If he does this, even in the transitional period, then I'd be willing to hear out a UBI proposal.
Agreed on that.
Democrats treat cost cutting and compromising like it’s getting a root canal. They’ve been hoarding government programs for decades and there are dead cats literally everywhere.. but simply asking them to clean up the congressional spending spaghetti a bit before a new proposal like UBI? Oh no, you just hate poor people you see.
N word you mean *he's not elimating taxes, elimating government programs, and elimating the national debt. Lolbert moment.
We spend over 9000 dollars per person already in social programs, he's not about decreasing government programs, he's about giving the money directly without sending it through the government's bureaucratic digestive tract. _After that_ it becomes easier to remove the said government machinery.
UBI is not the answer. It's the stepping stone to communism and the totalitarian social credit system.
We've had a dry run of it since covid started with all of the "tax break" handouts. The result has been a worker shortage because people would rather sit on their nuts and collect a check, unheard of supply chain shortages and massive stagflation.
UBI will create a two class system with the elite ruling class and the starvation class. UBI is the Hunger Games on steroids.
The workers didn’t “lose their job” it was offshored. Someone else in a foreign country is just doing the very same job.
For cheaper wage rates, and them imported back to US for more profit to manufacturers....
You weren't suppose to notice that.
Cheaper, with fewer safety and other regulations.
They mean Americans losing jobs
Not all jobs are offshored, manufacturing still done here is now done with robots. We're mining a lot more coal, employing a lot less people.
Stossel I have loved your reporting since I was a child, and I'm thankful we still have some good journalism and interviews out there. I appreciate your hard work!
He really lost me on the stupidity of his anti gun statements. I'm pro 2a "but"... No thanks.
I think he needs to think about that and prepare a better statement, become more clear on exactly what he means/believes in.
It's not a democratic party its the democrat party.
Thank you!!!!!!
Dems perfectly represent Democracy and why it's terrible.
UBI sounds a lot like minimum wage. It sounds novel and "good" on paper, a great rhetoric-friendly program that if introduced would never go away and simply be used for votes.
Every election cycle you will see people promise a raise in UBI, because it should be a "living wage". And you'll have unproductive dirtbags lowering their own life standards as much as needed to "survive" on UBI only while doing nothing.
The idea of the productive few carrying the lazy is absurd.
That's a great point if politicians start promising to raise it above the inflation rate then it would be a failure of a policy. UBI is supposed to be the very bare minimum to survive, but also not punish those that can and try to make more than just the bare minimum.
Could say the same about Social Security and Medicare, they're always pointing fingers and saying someone is threatening to cut it, but they're positive programs to have.
@Dementia Joe It wouldn't matter how much of a raise you get if you can't keep up with taxes and inflation.
A country needs its workforce to be productive, willingly making it less so is the epitome of self destructive human idiocy.
@Dementia Joe Is that for real? That's actually amazing.
The point is to attach ubi to _capital and technology_ based productivity, you would protect people from being cancelled and stranded without a job and stop many from being scared to tell the truth because their livelihood is jeopardised. Corporations control will have to be addressed, and giving them freedom from corporations (and the government) is one way to do it.
UBI is better than government programs. Period. Even Milton Friedman was for it.
He is delusional.
he's selling lies. that's all he has to sell.
@@shioq. exactly. Just trying to buy votes like all the others that promise stuff.
I really like the ranked voting idea. One that I doubt Democrats or Republicans will embrace but it is the best voting option to give everyone a voice.
In Australia we have preferential voting which doesn't work at all its very similar to rank voting, the issue isn't really with the voting it's the control of information and the education.
I'd say more then half the country believes the preferential system means you vote for a party and then that party chooses who your vote goes to if they don't win which is completely false but this bad education is the only way our duopoly can advertise the vote for a small party/independent is a vote for the other side. Though this being said we have mandatory voting and that is a huge part of the reason our duopoly is so strong.
I've always liked approval voting
Petition for ballot initiative and tell your representatives and canidates to put in ranked choice voting
Ranked voting is fundamentally still a function of democratic tyranny of the majority... it is still unethical.
It is not even close. We got stuck with Mills in Maine and it’s because of ranked choice. Ranked choice is the participation trophy voting system. I actually know more than enough people who just put one name on all three ballots. Because it’s a ridiculous idea that doesn’t elect who people want but who the party wants.
"Rank Choice Voting". The only thing he said that makes sense.
a'ye, that. the only OTHER thing he said that you and I support is the advocation of alternative parties ("anti-duo-opoly", to borrow Yang'lish). Alas, doomed inexorably to founder.
This really is a great idea. I hope it get's spread around.
Ranked choice voting sounds great, whether you like Yang or not.
It's an improvement, but I'm not convinced its the best approach. I really think we should have a system where legislation can not even leave congress unless approved by a 2/3 majority of both houses. A system like this that is so heavily tilted toward rejecting legislation, would go much further toward ensuring that only widely recognized necessary legislation could become law. I also think every law passed should sunset after some number of years, and be required to go through the entire process again to remain law. This would effectively put an upper limit on the entire legal code, so that only those things that are truly necessary remain laws forever. If we did this sort of thing, fiddling with the election system would not even be important, although that could help too.
Petition for ballot initiative and tell your representatives and canidates to put in ranked choice voting
I personally think a tyranny of the majority is always terrible... no matter how you dress it up.
We already have a UBI: it's set at $0. If you send out $1,000 payments to everyone, then $1,000 becomes the new UBI and prices rise to accommodate.
Your rent was $1,000 / month pre-UBI. Now it is $1,500 post-UBI.
Your groceries cost $500 / month pre-UBI. Now it is $750 / month post-UBI.
The only way you keep prices from rising is to implement price controls, which have a terrible record. Price controls make certain goods and services unprofitable, and thus you get shortages and empty shelves. Double edged sword of unintended consequences.
Minimum wage and UBI both need to be set at $0.
If you have $0, you can buy nothing. If you have any money, you can buy something. You're suggesting though that greed fuels price increases more than money supply. There's nothing to stop greed even without UBI other than making sure people can't afford things.
This largely depends on how elastic prices are in the economy. Some goods, but NOT all, will increase at an exact proportion to the increased wage. But other goods will only increase at a percentage portion of the increased wage because of consumer capture, sticky prices, etc.
I’m not saying I agree with Yang or UBI, only that this is much more complicated than how you portray it here.
If we tax everything and have nothing, everything is free 😆.
ding ding ding! someone gets it. well said.
@@Xckel13 correct, you will need a job to buy those things. but as Yang points out, the people will still want to work with ubi. ubi is just set at zero.
I always stop and wonder if Yang has ever actually heard a word out of Milton Friedman's mouth. Milton Friedman said countless times that minimum wage laws are racist.
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Yes, we need another brand of snake oil.
I have no confidence in Yang.
oh no! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ there goes 0.0000004% of all possible votes. i’m sure he’s going to cry a real river over you.
I fully support his point on open primaries. I feel like the radical wings of the parties are driving the agenda. Great interview by John Stossel.
The problem with open primaries is voting against a strong candidate you are concerned would win, in an effort to sabotage; instead of voting for the person who "you" believe would do a better job.
@@remfj40 Agreed. WRT Libertarians, I might argue that an unspoken part of Yang's proposition is: *"this also means you're going to have to compete with both the sabotage voters on either side and the troll voters on either side who are aiming to get the biggest buffoons nominated for either an easy win by their guy, or simply fer teh lulz".* IOW: the result thereof is anything but the end of the bi-party duopoly, but simply a greater weaponization of the primary process for the two parties and other groups to exploit for ill.
There should not be primaries. But if there is going to be primaries they should be open blanket when anyone can vote for anyone and u dont have to be registered as a certain party to vote in them. There should be notifications for upcoming elections, including primaries, sent to everyone at least 2 months prior. There should be write in ballots only. No names on the ballots.
He’s no better than Bernie. Free Money! 🙄
Yep all these Democrats promise stuff. Look at all the college students crying now ? They're not getting student loan forgiveness and now their ramen soup budget is lower because they have to pay for gas. They can't even afford to go out to party.
Not necessarily, UBI is a flat system vs a tax and spend system where the government uses the tax money to pick winners and losers. The logic is fundamentally different. Not saying I think it is a good idea, but it is definitely different.
Bernie hasn’t run anything….
@@lincolnworsham1085 accept for his millionaire mouth
Can someone please explain why I can only see a limited number of replies to these threads?
2nd Amendment clearly states "SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED" -- and while I appreciate Andrew Yang, he obviously DOES NOT understand those four simple words!
UBI is awful, pretty much the worst thing ever. Biggest “waste of money”! I support helping people out for a short time, a couple months, for example though. We need to curb the corruption in government, not give them more influence on our lives!
Better than giving it to all the countries around the world who only pocket the cash or support their war machine. It is our money, keep that in mind
Socialism without saying that it's socialism.
UBI is like plugging your surge protector into itself in hopes of having perpetual energy.
End the personal income tax would be better. And.. they just invent more money anyway... trillions and trillions. What's the difference?
@@caster863 Money in the pockets of the citizens, extra money. The government isn't supplying anything but some extra money. How is that socialism? The weak will fall by the wayside as they always do. It isn't like that for everyone though. A little extra cash might pick some folks up out of the gutter. What is your argument against it, besides condemning ubi as socialism w/o actually proving it?
"You lose, I lose...while the rest of us are actually doing the losing".....He got that right.
Government spending more in one area ($1,000 checks for everyone) does not cause government to spend less elsewhere. All this reduces motivation to work, increases government size, and increases national debt.
Yang talks like a Politician in most areas. You hear a lot of well sounding words but they fly in the face of reason.
I agree, but I just want to clarify, that the original intent of Yang's UBI policy was that people who already recieve welfare must opt out of their welfare benefits (foodstamps, TANF, Medicaid, Housing assistance, etc.) making it so that there could be a higher flow of liquid cash in the market, as opposed to being given specific benefits that lead to bureacratic growth, and essentialy a larger waste of tax dollars. The policy has since changed to include those who obtain welfare, but priot to that, I did support the concept.
well said.
@@MomoKunDaYo "must opt out of their welfare benefits" but but Yang said it should be the case, didn't he? 31:15 because that would cost people's benefits.
@@MomoKunDaYo The only thing free money accomplishes is creating inflation and lazy people.
Nah I don’t think it reduces motivation when they people receiving it have nothing to lose by working. And it puts more power into the individuals hands with money that would otherwise be left to the govt to use
Well done here, John. This is THE model for how to run a civil society. I disagree with Yang on plenty of things, but the fact that he is able to sit down with people like John and respectfully respond to challenges and explain his position puts him head and shoulders above most any other Progressive out there.
Forget running for office, Mr. Yang; you have too many fuzzy-deaded ideas and you are a progressive at heart. Go back into business.
The same reason Tulsi wasn't allowed (thanks lol) in is the same reason Yang wasn't allowed(🤦) in the club. They can't be controlled like the big guy.
*allowed - having permission
aloud - spoken to be heard.
"Tulsi was allowed to join."
"Andrew spoke the words aloud."
@@Eidolon1andOnly auto correct is the devil lol
@@Eidolon1andOnly a loud voice is also more easily heard. But the lefty herd of cattle is only allowed one path.
@@arolfghhfc Still forgot to correct the 2nd aloud in your sentence, LOL.
@@Eidolon1andOnly I have the attention span of a goldfish damn you modern world!!!
Approximately 20 years ago the federal income tax represented about 20% of the federal budget. 30 years ago it was closer to 5%. Today it is 50%. The federal government takes more money from the people and everything cost 100% more. What have we received for the tax. Nothing. It's past time to abolish the federal income tax.
You know...it was only meant to target the "rich" when it was first implemented. Taxes never stop w/ the rich. Eventually they come for everyone, and every thing that squirms, wiggles, or jiggles. It's well past time to "drain the swamp", but it's not going to happen. Gov'ts don't shrink and cede power to the people, unless they collapse under their own weight (taking everyone with them), or through revolution. Just voting in "the right people" is a fantasy. Gotta ride it out...hang on tight!
Not true. We receive the best military in the world. 😁 And lower taxes for our corporations.
@@jperin001 not denying the fact that the one thing government does well is national defense. I am contrasting the fact that we are 30 trillion in debt and everything like health care and education cost exponentially more.
Still a no from me
As a libertarian, this man isn’t anywhere near a libertarian
He never pretended to be and said directly that he isn’t, so congrats i guess
Only in the very vague sense that he doesn't inherently hate businesses, inherently.
@Ben Dover did we watch the same interview lmao Jesus you boomers need glasses
Forward progressive same thing.
His bad side is too horrid
I think Andrew Yang is a genuine, good person. My biggest complaint, and what remains frustrating, is his response to the endorsement of POTUS Joe Biden, and VP Kamala Harris. His response is eerily similar to Bernie Sanders - let's prop up the crooked because we want to remove President Crooked. When you start cheerleading for Biden and Harris, you're not any better than the duopoly you are running against.
Ubi is dumb cuz it steals from people just for gov to keep some and give back some. Better to just cut taxes on everyone, and only give money to the poor if anyone. People would actually be richer how things r now than putting in a ubi, exsept maybe some of the poor and some of the government. Cuz it would be stealing your money, letting gov keep some to pay its salary and to run the redistribution program, then give u back some. Ud be richer if u were just not stolen from in the first place.
He lost me with the gun BS.
He appeals to many on different facets...but he turns people away on different facets, too.
@@Stevarooni the only way his proposal would be ok is if after you got your license you could buy guns and ammo no different than you buy alcohol. Present your ID and make the purchase. Also it would need to be a part of highschool a shooters Ed so to speak. Sale of handguns at 21. Parental consent under 18. Moreover it would need to prove the government is playing fair by implementation of the school program and it's first graduates at 16 being able to purchase under the new system before it is implementated Nationwide.
What BS? He said he was pro 2nd amendment.
@@wolflarson71 how pro 2nd are you? I'm somewhere between F-35s and tactical Mc Nukes. You gotta do better than "I wanna institute a licensing program."
@@rexmann1984 lol, so hand grenades, rocket launchers, tanks, and machine guns legal under your preferred regime?
That fake laugh is really annoying
THANK YOU for talking about Ranked Choice Voting! I have been a Libertarian for 32 years, but in the last 2 years I have realized how futile our efforts are as long as the system is rigged to keep us down.
All Libertarians should adopt Ranked Choice Voting and other electoral reforms like proportional representation as their #1 talking point. It's easy! Every time someone tells you "I don't want to waste my vote" THAT is your opportunity. Start talking about RCV with everyone you meet.
It is a winning issue. Just like legal MJ, we start one state at a time, and eventually there will be momentum for national change.
It could hardly be worse than what we have.
Petition for ballot initiative and tell your representatives and canidates to put in ranked choice voting
And yet... it is still a tyranny of the majority.
this help me understand that he's not the right person for the job. john always asking the right questions.
more long-form content, please
this was great. i felt good when i agreed with Yang, frustrated when I disagreed
...and then brought back on point about ranked-choice voting.
How much does a single leader really change our world in 1 term?
Stay focused on Ranked-Choice Voting!!
I'm so happy you're uploading these full interviews now. I would love it if you went even one step further, and left the entire conversation completely unedited. I like to see people gathering their thoughts before answering a question, or otherwise drawing out their responses carefully. It shows that they are truly thinking about their answer, and giving it the weight it deserves. One of my favorite moments in a Jordan Peterson interview was when he said he needed a moment to think before answering, and proceeded to sit silently for about 15 seconds.
His common answer is "magic"
UBI sounds like a great way to increase inflation even more. If the country is in debt and running a deficit the only way they can afford ubi is by printing more money. It's going to be a spiral downwards to a collapsed dollar. Ubi only makes sense in a post scarcity economy
UBI won't work, but the fairtax would, which is kind of similar in a vague sort of way.
My thoughts exactly. I think achieving a post scarcity economy and paying off the national debt are the goals that need to be focused on. Of course more automation is needed.
Every socialist program does much more harm than good, and UBI would be the biggest most harmful socialist program EVER. 😡
Yeah I don't see how it would make any sense unless you had robots that worked for free and produced enough to cover their own cost and generate extra money for humans that are involved with them somehow.
Yang UBI have certain aim. It will inflate the technology and high goods and incentive basic goods. For example it will make mobile phone and ps 5 skyrocket, so government can give people cheap bread.
It is direct attack on tech corporation. It will make little business booming by killing big corp.
Not right or left but forward into inevitable chaos of civilization. Still I love yang, but yeah... I also kinda crazy
He’s got that Kamala laugh
Like kindergarten kids, show and tell, a bunch of slippery tongues and blood suckers
What a great interview. A lot of respect for Andrew despite our differences. Great discussion of ideas here.
Yang seems like the type of person that has made up his mind on what he wants to do, but just rewrites the script to try and convince people how his ideas perfectly fit what you need.
Like a Snake Oil salesman.
Overall I thought Andrew Yang was a good guy during the campaign and I agree with some of his ideas. But the way he sucked up to Biden and Harris "to get Trump out of office" is disingenuous and his stance on gun control turn me off.
You will not get Libertarians on your side with those kinds of opinions, Yang.
I agree. What I think he shold have done is continued to not take a side with part of th duopoly that he says is bad, even if he thinks that way, just don't get sucked in. Stay in his lane. Get the people to like him and they won't be able to stop him (unless hilary hires someone)
Guys a communist
Ubi is dumb cuz it steals from people just for gov to keep some and give back some. Better to just cut taxes on everyone, and only give money to the poor if anyone. People would actually be richer how things r now than putting in a ubi, exsept maybe some of the poor and some of the government. Cuz it would be stealing your money, letting gov keep some to pay its salary and to run the redistribution program, then give u back some. Ud be richer if u were just not stolen from in the first place.
I always figured the universal basic income idea was a gimmick to get people stirred up. I appreciate this interview and have a new respect towards andrew yang.
Ubi is dumb cuz it steals from people just for gov to keep some and give back some. Better to just cut taxes on everyone, and only give money to the poor if anyone. People would actually be richer how things r now than putting in a ubi, exsept maybe some of the poor and some of the government. Cuz it would be stealing your money, letting gov keep some to pay its salary and to run the redistribution program, then give u back some. Ud be richer if u were just not stolen from in the first place.
Great dialog. Keep it going.
I was raised a liberal leaning libertarian. I used to be left center when I was younger. After having kids, aging and consuming information online I have become more conservative each year. Thanks to content like John's I'm able to form better opinions.
Excellent objective interview, as always. Andrew Yang makes some interesting points that deserve discussion. However, as some have stated already, there are parts of his platform that I disagree with, i.e.- running against Trump just to get him out of office, when the alternative was clearly worse, universal income, climate change, based on events occurring in a small timeframe in the scheme of the history of the earth, etc. The reasons the ideas I disagree with seem "revolutionary" to many, in my opinion, are because they have been soundly discounted in the past as non-viable, especially when examining the implications and consequences of such policies, thereby never making it into the public discourse. Given the relatively ill-informed, illogical, short attention spanned nature of the general public and younger generations, they are easily pulled to and fro with every wave of thought that sounds pleasing to them without being able to discern the impact and costs of these ideas.
U nailed it.
usa on fire because trumps gone. TEHY GOT ALL 3 branches and its a total FN FAILURE REAL APPROVAL IS IN THE 20s IF PEOPLE WERE HONEST AND in the 10s if we had no welfare stimmies
Bravo
I don't think I agree with him on anything at all, other than our election system is fundamentally broken, and it's because of 50%+1 voting. This is not a new revelation, nor is changing it a bad idea. But hee's just latched onto it for self promotional reasons.
Ubi is dumb cuz it steals from people just for gov to keep some and give back some. Better to just cut taxes on everyone, and only give money to the poor if anyone.
Ranked choice voting seems to me like the thing that all of America needs right now
Great interview John... please keep them coming. I don't agree with many of Andrew's ideas, but I do support getting rid of the duopoly as he calls it and it is refreshing to listen to someone sharing ideas that haven't been created by the left or right machines.
Corporatism is the problem. Considering a corporation an individual is wrong
Yang *SHOULD* have joined the Libertarian party instead of starting a 15th party. Granted, Libertarians would never go for UBI, the more fragmented smallish parties we have, the more power D's & R's have. We have to unite AGAINST the 2 major parties.
This is why I love the voting means he proposes. I think a lot of poeple agree we need to get rid of the singularity (fake duopoly) but all the money backing the dems and GOP will fight it tooth-and-nail
I would never vote for Andrew Yang, but I would vote for ranked-choice voting.
Hell I'll take Andrew over any other 2020 Democrat
Great interview and great questions asked John! Too rarely do journalists not ask tough questions and hold politicians accountable for REAL answers.
How about tax everyone $1,000 less per month?
Exactly! I left a comment for yang telling him to basically abandon the ubi idea and just cut taxes on everyone. But i dont think he read it. Wish someone would tell him to do that. Ubi is dumb cuz it steals from people just for gov to keep some and give back some. Better to just cut taxes on everyone, and only give money to the poor if anyone. People would actually be richer how things r now than putting in a ubi, exsept maybe some of the poor and some of the government. Cuz it would be stealing your money, letting gov keep some to pay its salary and to run the redistribution program, then give u back some. Ud be richer if u were just not stolen from in the first place.
Thank you Mr. Stossel for this and all your content. I never miss your post. Politicians should be begging for you to interview them. If not for your interview I would never have given Mr. Yang the time of day. I must say, I am impressed with some of his ideas. When he states " I would have said or done anything to get Trump out of office", That destroyed all his credibility. How can anyone believe what he says again? We have at least 2 more years to go with Mr. Biden. I wonder if Mr. Yang thinks we're better off today?
Mr. Yang's ideas on taxes and tiered voting are great. UBI? There is no such thing as free money. We need LESS government, not more.
He's confusing to me, on one hand he has good ideas that are positive to the individual American, but on the other he supported the candidates that were the farthest from that (Biden and Harris) and rebuked the one that was (Trump). He's conflicted, and while he identifies we are polarized and manipulated to be a duopoly, team based politics, he still falls for the basic principles of it by supporting things against what he says is his own interest. He has some growing up to do, but if he keeps his ideas and starts paying attention to his contradictions, he could be a good candidate one day.
I agree, it seems he doesn't notice that he fits the mold he described early on, where you're born either dem or GOP, and you can make a decision to leave that, he wants the duopoly gone yet he supports the leftist leaders. He needs will smith to slap him one time.
Ubi is dumb cuz it steals from people just for gov to keep some and give back some. Better to just cut taxes on everyone, and only give money to the poor if anyone. People would actually be richer how things r now than putting in a ubi, exsept maybe some of the poor and some of the government. Cuz it would be stealing your money, letting gov keep some to pay its salary and to run the redistribution program, then give u back some. Ud be richer if u were just not stolen from in the first place.
Well im a longtime registered Independent voter and he don't speak for me.
You like the single choice voting?
Interesting interview. However, Andy has caught the Kamala cackle. Kinda creepy.
If yang wants to shrink the government then lets destroy the welfare, fema, atf and IRS (flat tax). Bam smaller government and less government spending so more money we can keep.
He totally lost me when he admitted he would have done anything to get rid of Trump. Even going so far as to lie to the American people.
Voting for a party outside of the Duopoly is never a wasted vote. In NZ, there is almost a Duopoly, with the Loony Greens often getting more than 15% (giving them far too much power in a small, socialist country). I could care less, because I vote with my conscience, not "strategically". As with the US, the Duopoly merely gives as a choice in flavour of the socialism we can suffer under - there's no actual real choice. I definitely support Andrew Yang's rank candidate system. Only the elites and swamp-dwellers will hate it.
I’d modify UBI. Don’t give people cash. Barracks, chow hall, medical center, for free. If you want anything more than food, clothing, shelter, and basic healthcare, get a job. I’ve seen plenty of people on welfare living on the street.
Ubi is bad cuz it steals from people just for gov to keep some and give back some. Better to just cut taxes on everyone, and only give money to the poor if anyone. People would actually be richer how things r now than putting in a ubi, exsept maybe some of the poor and some of the government. Cuz it would be stealing your money, letting gov keep some to pay its salary and to run the redistribution program, then give u back some. Ud be richer if u were just not stolen from in the first place.
He needs to adjust his position on UBI and Gun control real quick before he starts promoting this idea that he's on the side of Libertarians.
@Ben Dover He's more like a sheep, he's espousing similar views to Bernie. Like Bernie it makes him look like a weak leader.
@@DarkLordofTheRizz Also like Bernie, he bends over after getting that sweet campaign money to the party they're supposedly against.
Ubi is bad cuz it steals from people just for gov to keep some and give back some. Better to just cut taxes on everyone, and only give money to the poor if anyone. People would actually be richer how things r now than putting in a ubi, exsept maybe some of the poor and some of the government. Cuz it would be stealing your money, letting gov keep some to pay its salary and to run the redistribution program, then give u back some. Ud be richer if u were just not stolen from in the first place.
I do like what he says about the duopoly though! We need to destroy it!
yessir, yessir we do. It's really a singularity.
YANG does have some good ideas.
I hive him props for siiting down with STOSSEL to have a really dicussion and not hide agendas. We need need more business people who know have how life really works in Government.
Next to the Statue of Liberty there should be a statue of John Stossel
I'm glad Yang is sticking with it. While I do not agree with UBI, he's without a doubt a thinker and wants change that hopefully limit government creep.
IMHO, what he really wants is for Yang to be in charge. I don't disagree with him on everything, but his positions are not cohesive and seem to be a reaction to losing rather than being rooted in something of substance.
I don't agree with Yang on 90% of his ideas - but I would never have known that - if John hadn't done this interview. Thank you :)
Good interview! Data interpretation would be a huge issue for this party, but at the same time, it is refreshing to see a modern politician using that data in this way (instead of bias popularity polls, he is looking at it from a 'how do we make life better' standpoint). He makes the standard politician seem ancient. I also can't get behind sending the feds my money only to have the dole it back out to me. I'd rather just keep what I earn. But I will support thier efforts to repair our damaged current duopoly. Mr. Yang is certainly a force other politicians should be watching.
The Most Interesting Man in the World: Although I don't always listen to liberals, when I do, it is Andrew Yang.
Trump was the best thing that happened to the Republican Party in recent years. And most Americans want the politicians on either side to focus on Americans and America
Love or hate Yang's positions, one thing is undeniable: He is absolutely correct that for anything to change, we must move to open primaries and rank choice voting.
Before I buy into rank choice voting, let me see how well it works out in Alaska and Maine first.
How is he absolutely correct about supporting a tyranny of the majority?
Pass
Liberal wolf in sheeps clothing
Thank you, John!
No thanks.
Mr. Stossel interviewed him well, but I’m not convinced he’s a good 3rd party candidate. AI will get good enough to do most jobs, but having the government give money away never solves a problem. Look at the last couple of years and what “relief” did for our dollar.
People need to starve a little to become motivated to do something about it. Sometimes that creates more crime, but that will require more jobs in the form of law enforcement lol. I’m being facetious. Government needs to get out of the way and let Americans do what they do best.
Not everyone is going to kill it in this society. UBI is meant as a buffer for those to have some way to survive in the AI shift. Elon also agrees a UBI is necessary. UBI was meant to later replace the social welfare programs, but can't be outright said initially until its widely adopted.
Yang's view on Trump shows he is like all the other politicians. Why is he so afraid of Trump winning if that's how the country votes?
Glad I watched this. Initially I never payed any attention to Yang, but after watching this, I believe most, but not all of his views aligned with mine. Thanks John, keep up the good work.
There’s a saying out there during his 2020 campaign - if Yang can unite the YT comment section, he can unite the country
Yeah....no
Yang's laughing reminds me of the current vice president. Woe is me!
The problem is that the US does not have free and fair elections, where all parties compete equally. Instead, there are unconstitutional ballot access laws that effectively ban all third parties from success. Similarly, gerrymandering means that the politicians in the two ruling parties choose the winners, instead of your vote doing so. This also bans third parties, in effect.
And no, open primaries would make things worse. What we actually need is to end ballot access laws.
Thank you, glad someone else understands the absurdities on open primaries. That would allow the chance for the same party to represent the entire ticket rather than 1 per party (which is the point of primaries) and make it even more unlikely for third parties to even be on the ballot.
@@lukeraymond6927 Not only that, but open primaries violate the Right of Freedom of Association. They force members of parties to allow outsiders to vote.
For years, I've tried to illustrate this by saying "what if citizens of Communist China got to vote in US presidential elections", but these days that doesn't actually seem implausible.
@@lukeraymond6927 I don't understand this. Can you explain further?
@@jperin001 So the idea of an open primary is that everyone (regardless of their party affiliation) can either vote in each party's primary or in some areas simply primary all candidates on the initial ballot to select the top few for election day.
The issue with the former is you have people not registered in the party affecting the candidate selection that party members think best represent them to go to the election. This has resulted in the primaried candidate to shift away from the main base from the party they supposedly represent (as is the case with Senator Lisa Murkosski from Alaska). When that happens, a party no longer has control to select the candidate they want to run the most since unaffiliate members get to vote as well.
In the latter issue, if you primary to select the top 5 most popular candidates from the initial ballot, that can end in a result where some parties are not represented at all on the ballot and some parties (most likely one or both the major ones) could have multiple or even all of one party only has their candidates on the ballot.
Both of these issues are being caused to supplicate ignorant voters that are too self righteous to register for the party that most nearly represents them and complain they have no choices to vote at the general election. If you want to participate in the primary process, you should just pick the damn party that holds the most values you have in order to influence the candidate outcome shares the ones you prioritize the most. It is absurd for people that want to claim to be independent and then complain about not being able to primary when they chose to handicap themselves so they can just say "look at me, I'm an independent and free thinker". This is further breaking the system just to say we're making changes without making any tangible improvements
@@lukeraymond6927 Thank you for taking the time to thoroughly explain. I can understand the importance of a party being able to have some measure of control over candidate selection for the sake of values coherence. What we have in America today though are two parties with absolute control over candidate selection at the ballot as well as the miles of "infrastructure" supporting our "democracy" or "republic". I assume you are not necessarily advocating for the existence of two political parties, but I would prefer either no parties or more than 3 parties. (I know, technically there are many parties in the US, but we should agree that functionally there are only two.) If the point of a representational democracy is for our political leaders to hear and deliberate over the will of the people, then our collective votes should play a greater role in choosing the direction with more granularity than what our two party system currently presents. I think open primaries would help in that respect. I think of open primaries more of an insurgency against two party rule than against a party system in general.
With respect to the first issue you cite, if that results in a candidate who isn't on board with all of their party's official tenets, then the party heads have a choice to make. They can consider the citizens' voice or should be able to disown the candidate from the party.
With respect to the second issue, if a party ends up with no candidates on the final ballot then it has some soul searching to do. Perhaps this would erode the purpose of a party serving as a bundled package of immutable values. That's fine by me, although I'm open to being convinced otherwise. I'd much rather prefer candidates engaging in long form discussions about the merits and drawbacks of the contemporary will of the people supported by credible data and evidence. Bottom line is there needs to be a greater variety and depth of thought coming from candidates competing for our votes. That is not going to happen with closed primaries.
Now I will concede that shifting to open primaries could lead to unintended consequences. Likely other reforms will have to take place as well in order to thwart further attempts to game the political landscape. Unfortunately little reform takes place in a well established two party system. They built a cozy house where they can enjoy >90% reelection rates while not having to produce any results or answer to voters other than the less than 5% that donate to campaigns. Dollar bills are the real ballots that get casted.
This two party system serves to aid the illusion of "popular" support. Other western democracies have outgrown this artifact and have incorporated reforms to disaggregate political power. Why can't the oldest democracy on the planet do so as well? Because it makes it more difficult for the biggest players in the greatest capitalistic economy on the planet to game the politics for their advantage. To be fair, everyone will likely have something to lose in a breakup of the duopoly. I'm proud of America with all its faults, but we need to refocus on innovating at all levels to continue to thrive. We are dying a slow death from political stagnation due to the polarizing effect of our two party system. Yet the pace seems to be picking up speed lately.
Again, I appreciate the time you took to respond.
Can We take a moment and thank this channel for leaving comments on. Very American.
It is interesting that he choose negative income tax from Milton Freedman but ignores the history and destructive nature of a minimum wage!
Cars are not protected by the constitution, according to SCOTUS, so comparing guns to cars is disingenuous.
I cant take him seriously after the whip cream incident lol
Yang, TDS, a climate catastrophist, UBI unintended consequences, government-funded journalist, raising the minimum wage above $15/hr., gun control, the list goes on and on.
Ranked-choice voting is the only good idea I'm hearing, and I would vote for that.
I would vote for ranked choice voting ONLY if it wasn't tied to any of his other insane ideas.
I would vote for nuking the whole government, who runs for that?
How is nuclear energy catastrophic?
@@ProdSwelly I think you might have gotten the wrong idea.
@@ProdSwelly I just re-read my comment and nope, no mention of nuclear energy, not one.
I question Yang’s intelligence if he honestly thinks that Biden’s administration is an improvement over Trump’s.
ya. he went too far there. I think he needs to check himself when he talks about that predisposition to be a dem or republican. He needs to realize he's still stuck in that spot and needs to get out of it.
This guy does not have a good message...we need less government and we need to go after those politicians who have abused the system and our taxes to line their pockets!!
dear mr yang - the government needs to know every book you have in your home and you need to pay a licence fee on each book every 5 years
So he’s going to change the system.
Good luck Minnie Mouse.
No one is running to make the “system” much simpler. Maybe blow it up and start over. “The blob” won’t go without a fight.
people that LEGALLY own guns do NOT engage in gun crime.