Former Yang campaign staffer Jonathan Herzog discusses Andrew Yang's Humanity First approach during the 2020 Democratic presidential primary.
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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: Firms will not rehire furloughed workers post-crisis
“The firms that are, you know, laying off and furloughing tens of thousands of workers they're not going to rehire them, unfortunately, at the end of this crisis.”
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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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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.”