Published On Oct 23, 2019
Entrepreneur Andrew Yang answers questions from two undecided Democratic voters. NPR’s Noel King hosts. Click "Show More" below for topic timecodes.
Watch all the full interviews here:
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INTRO
2:05 - Yang sings Prince
2:34 - Yang discusses riding his bike in New York City
UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME - 3:42
4:22 - What is universal basic income and the freedom dividend?
11:08 - Yang defends his preference for VAT taxes over wealth taxes
21:00 - Yang on “winners and losers” in an economically divided country
24:09 - Will people have to choose between welfare and the freedom dividend?
28:53 - How would the freedom dividend combat inequality in education?
33:05 - Why not set an income threshold for the freedom dividend?
CLIMATE CHANGE - 37:01
39:04 - “[Climate change] is already changing lives and destroying lives.”
40:12 - Yang on thorium, a “next-generation fuel for nuclear reactors”
43:16 - How will he reach people who “don’t believe in climate change”?
47:18 - What does he mean by moving people to “higher ground”?
50:16 - Is the idea for people to use their freedom dividends to prepare for climate change?
OUTRO
51:32 - Yang’s views on impeachment
52:08 - Yang on Asian-American identity
53:56 - “Are you running for president to win?”
55:44 - “Why you're so averse to a wealth tax?”
57:21 - “If you don’t become president, how are you going to continue to work on these ideas?”
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