Jump to content
The Official Site of the Vancouver Canucks
Enter Search Term. Use arrows to navigate between autocomplete results. If no results appear, use Enter to do a full site search.
Forum Closure ×
Canucks Community
Forum Closure

smokes

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    4,292

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    2

 Content Type 

Posts posted by smokes

    [Updated-Report] Canucks place Sven Baertschi on Waivers

    in Trades, Rumours, Signings

    Posted · Edited by smokes

    5 hours ago, WHL rocks said:

    JB contacted the league. If his salary is in line with league average for that position then it's above board. 

     

    What's with constant victim  playing by some people on this board. Always crying about how Canucks getting screwed. Every game by the refs.. or by the league or by other teams or by ex Canucks. Bunch of victims seem to be all signed up to CDC 

    It all started with losing out on the 1st overall to Buffalo.

    • Haha 2

    Andrew Yang's $1000/month UBI

    in Off-Topic General

    Posted

    1 hour ago, Boudrias said:

    To to your point about wage disparity. I totally agree that it is one of the biggest issues facing OECD nations. Does a guaranteed income solve it? If it would how do you fund it? Would underemployment soothe the masses? I doubt it but something has to be done over and above what is happening now. 

    https://www.yang2020.com/what-is-freedom-dividend-faq/

    It would be easier than you might think. Andrew proposes funding the Freedom Dividend by consolidating some welfare programs and implementing a Value Added Tax of 10 percent. Current welfare and social program beneficiaries would be given a choice between their current benefits or $1,000 cash unconditionally – most would prefer cash with no restriction.

    A Value Added Tax (VAT) is a tax on the production of goods or services a business produces. It is a fair tax and it makes it much harder for large corporations, who are experts at hiding profits and income, to avoid paying their fair share. A VAT is nothing new. 160 out of 193 countries in the world already have a Value Added Tax or something similar, including all of Europe which has an average VAT of 20 percent.

    The means to pay for the basic income will come from four sources:

    1. Current spending: We currently spend between $500 and $600 billion a year on welfare programs, food stamps, disability and the like. This reduces the cost of the Freedom Dividend because people already receiving benefits would have a choice between keeping their current benefits and the $1,000, and would not receive both.

    Additionally, we currently spend over 1 trillion dollars on health care, incarceration, homelessness services and the like. We would save $100 – 200+ billion as people would be able to take better care of themselves and avoid the emergency room, jail, and the street and would generally be more functional. The Freedom Dividend would pay for itself by helping people avoid our institutions, which is when our costs shoot up. Some studies have shown that $1 to a poor parent will result in as much as $7 in cost-savings and economic growth.

    2. A VAT: Our economy is now incredibly vast at $19 trillion, up $4 trillion in the last 10 years alone. A VAT at half the European level would generate $800 billion in new revenue. A VAT will become more and more important as technology improves because you cannot collect income tax from robots or software.

    3. New revenue: Putting money into the hands of American consumers would grow the economy. The Roosevelt Institute projected that the economy will grow by approximately $2.5 trillion and create 4.6 million new jobs. This would generate approximately $800 – 900 billion in new revenue from economic growth.

    4. Taxes on top earners and pollution: By removing the Social Security cap, implementing a financial transactions tax, and ending the favorable tax treatment for capital gains/carried interest, we can decrease financial speculation while also funding the Freedom Dividend. We can add to that a carbon fee that will be partially dedicated to funding the Freedom Dividend, making up the remaining balance required to cover the cost of this program.

    • Cheers 1

    Andrew Yang's $1000/month UBI

    in Off-Topic General

    Posted

    3 hours ago, MoneypuckOverlord said:

    I think Bernie Sanders is also going after the internet giants in the States.

    I think all government should. Why should Amazon, Facebook, Google etc pay virtually nothing in federal tax when everyone needs to. They should be paying the most especially when they use and sell our data so freely.

    Andrew Yang's $1000/month UBI

    in Off-Topic General

    Posted

    Just now, Kragar said:

    Agreed... but does it affect all races equally?  I'm just applying the Dem lens against their own idea here, that's all.

    I grew up in a poor Asian neighborhood and I can tell you that there are an abundant of poor Asians, when you drive through the small town around the country you will see swaths of poor white neighborhoods as well. So that's why I refuse to see being poor as a racial issue. 

    Andrew Yang's $1000/month UBI

    in Off-Topic General

    Posted

    3 hours ago, Kragar said:

    However, I do struggle to see why it is racist to (for instance) require ID for voting but not racist to take benefits away from poor people to go ahead and give everyone a larger benefit.

    Being poor is not a problem only afflicting one race. It affects all races. 

    • Cheers 1

    Andrew Yang's $1000/month UBI

    in Off-Topic General

    Posted

    4 hours ago, Kragar said:

    I wasn't looking to you to answer for it, but I'm interested in your thoughts on that view.

     

    If his plan is to give every US adult a grand a month, but to help pay for it, he is going to take away from some welfare programs, then that means that people who presumably need those welfare programs are going to be worse off in comparison to those who don't need them, once his UBI program is implemented.

     

    I object to the plan on a variety of levels, but I cannot see how the oft-race-card-playing Dems can support this when it benefits the rich and middle-class more than the poor (who are disproportionately black).  Sure, it's a drop in the bucket for the rich (who shouldn't get this anyhow, IMO).  But those who are lower middle class, or, poor but not needing welfare will benefit more from this than the poorest in our society. 

    There are a ton of poor people who are not on income assistance though. Those who have two jobs to make ends meet for instance. It would also get people to try to get a job as well. I've been poor but never on income assistance. Had a decent paying job but rent took away all my disposable income. I am not understanding why everything must boil down to race though? There are poor people in every race. 

    Andrew Yang's $1000/month UBI

    in Off-Topic General

    Posted

    So Andrew Yang who has seemingly come out of nowhere and is still hanging on the the Democratic primary is basically running on taxing the big internet giants and use tat money to give every adult $1000/per month regardless of how much you make. If that happened where you are, would it affect your situation much?

×
×
  • Create New...