Presidential candidate Andrew Yang will use 3D holograms for remote rallies
Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang revealed this week that he's planning to use a 3D hologram to hold campaign rallies in multiple cities at the same time. Yang discussed the hologram during an appearance on TMZ Live. The segment showed off a hologram version of Yang dancing and performing with the famous Tupac hologram that appeared at Coachella in 2012.
[...] Yang plans to use the hologram, broadcast from the back of a truck, to deliver a recorded version of his stump speech to crowds in battleground states. Yang would set up in a studio and remotely beam into the rally to answer questions live and in real-time after the speech finished. The technique could save Yang, a longshot for the Democratic nomination at this point, a considerable amount of travel costs while helping to rally supporters and generate interest in key areas.
In the future, all politicians will attend events exclusively as holograms, beamed from their studios in Elysium.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 16 2019, @06:47AM (3 children)
You can read the details of Yang's plan for UBI on his website [yang2020.com]. Specifically, the "How would we pay for Universal Basic Income?" section answers your question. His plan is to fund it with a 10% VAT and make UBI vs. existing welfare programs be a choice (i.e. no one gets both).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 16 2019, @06:52AM
As the payer, I have no say as to the details.
The problem I want to know is how is he going to deal with the "collectors"?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 16 2019, @08:10AM
Idiotic. VAT is finally paid by the consumers, everything on the production/distribution line gets deduced.
Which makes VAT a regressive tax. Which means robbing Peter to pay Peter - 'cause 1%-er Paul ain't gonna pay a lot. That's not a real wealth redistribution!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 16 2019, @03:11PM
So his solution is more taxes, and "no one gets both" but "both" still exist. In other words, people will get "both" in a few years and the taxes will stay raised.