'To the extent that I make light of certain stereotypes, I believe that it’s helping expose how ridiculous some of them are,” Andrew Yang says in dinner with voters. “If I felt like I was actively harming our community...then I would feel differently.'
“Certainly my experience is not the norm nor is anyone’s experience the norm, given how broad and diverse our community is. To the extent that I make light of certain stereotypes, I believe that it’s helping expose how ridiculous some of them are,” he told Kaur. “ If I felt like I was actively. Harming our community in some way, then I would feel differently. But right now, and even when I interact with most Asian Americans, most of them are excited about my candidacy.
Smith acknowledged the effect that emerging technology has had on unemployment rates, but questioned if Yang’s universal basic income plan was the right solution.“The key reason to be excited about a universal basic income is that it one, recognizes the kind of work that we’re already doing that the market does not recognize. So that’s stay-at-home moms, caregivers, nurtures, but also volunteers, artists where thew market is not what it once was,” Yang responded.
Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang, right, joins ABC's Linsey Davis, second from left and voters Ramsey Smith, Jaslin Kaur and Mara Novak for dinner in New York, Dec. 4, 2019.While most candidates in the Democratic field can agree that corporations haven’t paid their fair share in taxes, the way they go about dispersing that wealth differs.on individuals who earn a certain amount of income, Yang proposes taxing big tech companies and other corporations.
But Yang repeated some of the criticism he has launched at the idea of a wealth tax on the trail, using Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’s wealth as an example as to how someone as wealthy as him could skirt the rules and avoid paying a wealth tax. Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang, right, joins ABC's Linsey Davis, second from left and voters Ramsey Smith, Jaslin Kaur and Mara Novak for dinner in New York, Dec. 4, 2019.
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