Funny thing about all this talk with regard to the Yang proposal, he wanted a VAT tax like many countries use in Europe & most of the rest of the world use. Nothing exotic or even all that 'hose the rich' about it. Feel free to look up VAT to understand how it works fully, but a value added tax is a sort of sales tax on everything that causes an increase in value to a good or service being produced & is considered a 'regressive' or 'hose the poor' tax by some of its critics. The global 1% thing is a BS straw man, as no one ever proposed this applying outside the US. Yang wanted a VAT tax here in the US generating UBI for American citizens. I could foresee problems with the UBI, but hosing the rich and giving away money to the rest of the world have nothing to do with the Yang UBI proposal.

As a politically aware American I'm well aware of this old trope of right leaning politics. The notion here is that the poor are far better off 'pulling them selves up by the boot straps' & solving all of their own problems rather than leaning on the government in any way. The closer you get to pure Libertarian/Conservative politics, the more you fear that government will create dependency & corrode all the positive affects of a pure capitalist market economy. Under harder line versions of this view any welfare program is a step on the slippery slope to 'socialism' & having an ever increasing horde of poor folks 'milking the government teat' & teaching their children to do the same, all while being inherently unproductive for society & draining dollars out of the far more productive 'free market' part of the economy. This is in theory suppose to be horrible for both the rich right wing donor class and hard working folks alike, as both have to pay more in taxes and supposedly receive a weaker economy for their efforts.

Then of course there is the actual reality of the situation, which we can look up by digging into the GDP per capita of the US states and seeing how poorly left leaning states perform in the real world under the supposed burden of their larger welfare programs. According to my admittedly somewhat slanted interpretation of the Wikipedia list of states by GDP per capita, 9 of the top 12 states lean somewhat to very far in the direction of 'American Liberalism', and the other three all have oil money & conservative state governments. Of the top 12 only Alaska, South Dakota & Wyoming have any consistent pattern of conservative voting and they have had oil goosing their economy for decades in Alaska & there has been a fracking driven oil boom in the other two.

Regardless of the reasons for 3 right leaning states being in the top 12 in GDP per capita, the other 9 have a pattern of voting for Democrats for president & also have state governments with a long history of Democratic control. They are what I'd consider test cases for welfare spending under the umbrella of left wing capitalism, and they all have very productive economies by any reasonable measure. I could get into how education & other spending may be offsetting the supposed drag of 'welfare takers', but however you slice it America's capitalist left seems to a figured out how to have great economic outcomes regardless of their welfare spending. It's also worth noting that the highest performing state on the GDP per capita list, Massachusetts, is also widely considered the most ideological liberal & has an economy that seems to beat every nation in the world on a GDP per capita basis, at least that is when you ignore middle eastern oil powerhouses & international tax havens like Switzerland.

Also of note is that the bottom of the GDP per capita list ('09 chained $) is an inverted mirror of the top, with right wing states making up about 10 of the bottom 12. I think we are very much leaning to regret this type of thinking in my home state of Florida, as our former governor went to great lengths to prevent 'welfare takers' from receiving any public assistance prior to the COVID 19 crisis & word has it it's all but impossible to receive public assistance regardless of how worthy your need is. I think any reasonable economist would think this will depress spending & keep unemployment higher for longer. It seems problems with not being able to get public assistance are going to drag far more on my local economy than providing it would have.

So much for the supposed problems with American welfare.

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Also, more on topic, thanks for trying Mozilla. Not sure if anything good will come of it, but I like the effort.