Stealing credit for UBI

[cagefreesoylentgreen]

I had to pick up some medication refills and while at Walgreens I chitchatted with one of the store clerks about the $1000+ or some other monetary that everyone will be receiving as part of this crisis.

The store clerk sincerely believed that Mitt Romney was the one who came up with the idea first and 45 adopted it. And I was all, “No, no, it was Andrew Yang, a DEMOCRAT, who proposed it as far back as last year when he was running for president. Romney stole it from him!”

I showed the store clerk a few articles on my phone to back up what I was saying and she seemed to believe me.

So if anyone else runs into something like this out in the wild, remind folks it was YANG and Democrats who first came up with this idea, not some damn Repub. And Yang’s idea was for $1000 every month in perpetuity even if there’s no imminent existential crisis going on.

[Laelth]

1. Credit where it is due. Thank you, Andrew Yang. n/t

-Laelth

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2. Yang is the current proponent of UBI but he actually credits..

MLK, among others (Friedman and Thomas Payne), for his inspiration on it.

Another major American figure Yang points to as a supporter of UBI is civil-rights hero Martin Luther King Jr. for proposing it back ln the 60s.

[cagefreesoylentgreen]

3. Fair point

But ultimately, it wasn’t a Republican’s idea and that point needs to be hammered home.

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4. Absolutely.