universal basic income

“I'm of the belief of you have to go to one or the other extreme. You can't kind of put one foot in the water here. So either you give everybody zero and you just say, we are not going to give money. We are not even going to go down that path and people need to…”

“True. If I'm gonna just say true or false, true.”

“This actually passed the U.S. House of Representatives twice in 1971 and almost became law under Nixon.”

“I think it's really important that we have a fully universal amount, especially right now. Because of this not knowing The situations that people are in.”

“So if you do that, and then if you're going to do a thousand dollars per month per person, and you're going to go to citizens in the United States, then it's a little over three trillion dollars. That's the gross cost.”

“Charles Murray's plan is to actually cash out everything and just provide people this universal basic income, and it actually, it was asked of economists if they would approve of that, and, like, it was virtually, like, no economist approved of that approach”

“We could actually be paying for a 2000 dollar a month fully universal basic income for the amount of money that the, in, in, in the Fed is doing in one week.”

“The only reason we're talking about UBI like we are right now to the degree that we are is because of this crisis.”

“If you enable people to actually move from cities to rural areas, And it would even make sense to do that because your, you know, thousand dollars or 2000 dollars or whatever it is, is going to go further in those lower cost of living areas. Then again, you're…”

“Well, I don't, it doesn't matter whether you're a Democrat or a Republican, you should fight for UBI instead of fighting for minimum wage.”