Congressional candidate Jonathan Herzog argues that pandemic-era job losses will permanently accelerate automation and workforce reduction.
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Jonathan Herzog claims SEO disinformation generated 100,000 false headlines post-launch
“Immediately thereafter, a targeted Systematic disinformation campaign was launched, where if you Google my name, Jonathan Herzog, on a computer and hit the news tab, you will see 100,000 of false headlines improperly indexed through SEO manipulation to myself,…”
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Jonathan Herzog claims opponent Lindsay Boylan's ballot signatures were 80% invalid
“So we actually found about an 80% invalidity rate going line by line because most of them were collected in the Bronx or Queens.”
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Herzog: A 10% VAT would generate $800B annually for US
“So if we pass a 10% value added tax, that on its own conservatively would bring in eight hundred billion annually new revenue into the system.”
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Herzog: Andrew Yang was the only 2020 candidate with zero personal attacks
“Andrew was, again, if you look at the data on this, it's shocking. The only candidate who never attacked, never any ad hominems, never any personal attack against any of his competitors or even Trump or anyone who had voted for Trump.”
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Jonathan Herzog claims 94% of Americans would benefit from VAT-funded UBI
“If you spend less than a 120,000 dollars a year on stuff, Then you are so much better off, and that's basically 94% of all people in the United States, because there's money coming in from oxygen in the system, from all the transactions, all the production, al…”
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Herzog: Yang's Digital Campaign Was Highly Decentralized Like Trump's
“And then, in, in our case, what was different, and this is actually more paralleling the Trump campaign's kind of digital approach, which was, it was highly, highly decentralized.”