Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang said Tuesday that he’d like to sit down with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., to explain the Freedom Dividend, the universal basic income proposal that’s the cornerstone of his campaign for the White House. Yang says he’d pay for his Freedom Dividend by implementing a value-added tax. Yang's plan has faced some criticism, with some saying that the $1,000 per month dividend would prevent people qualifying for government assistance. But Yang supporters argue that’s also true of the federal jobs guarantee and $15 minimum wage, both of which have been proposed by Sanders. Other critics have also suggested that people collecting Supplemental Security Income would lose those benefits if they opted into Yang’s Freedom Dividend.

Source: Fox News December 03, 2019 21:13 UTC