Hunh - I'm wrong. In my defense, Yang seems to have revised his plan on this - his website used to read "We currently spend between $500 and $600 billion a year

Hunh - I'm wrong. In my defense, Yang seems to have revised his plan on this - his website used to read "We currently spend between $500 and $600 billion a year on welfare programs, food stamps, disability and the like. This reduces the cost of Universal Basic Income because people already receiving benefits would have a choice but would be ineligible to receive the full $1,000 in addition to current benefits." So it looks like they softened this position at some point? But yeah, that's a much better position than the old one.