Andrew Yang Talks Universal Basic Income, Climate Change, With Undecided Voters | Off Script | NPR

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:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLp-wXwmbv3z-BASSwSoGZSrRwnwsBadIF

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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