{"id":219159,"date":"2021-04-05T03:51:33","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T00:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nyc-insiders-are-ramping-up-attacks-on-andrew-yang\/"},"modified":"2021-04-05T03:51:33","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T00:51:33","slug":"nyc-insiders-are-ramping-up-attacks-on-andrew-yang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nyc-insiders-are-ramping-up-attacks-on-andrew-yang\/","title":{"rendered":"#NYC insiders are ramping up attacks on Andrew Yang"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#NYC insiders are ramping up attacks on Andrew Yang<\/strong>”
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Is Andrew Yang getting interesting? The mayoral front-runner has lately developed a habit of making reasonable, if rather big-picture, suggestions for governing Gotham \u2014 and it\u2019s driving his rivals crazy. Yang hasn\u2019t proved he\u2019s ready to be mayor, but his competitors\u2019 unhinged responses to even the most obvious of his ideas show they aren\u2019t.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Yang\u2019s least interesting or constructive idea is his signature issue: universal basic income. Last year, he ran for president on giving every adult in America $1,000 a month.\u00a0The idea is to give the poor choice in what to do with their money, rather than hand them vouchers for housing, food and so forth. UBI gives everyone else a weapon against wage stagnation and the automation and offshoring of jobs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Big App<\/a>le can\u2019t give every adult $1,000 monthly. It would cost $80 billion a year, exceeding tax revenues. So Yang offers a strip<\/a>ped-down version of his \u201cuniversal\u201d plan: $167 a month for the poorest half-million New Yorkers. But he never explains key details.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ignore UBI, however, and Yang has other, useful ideas. Last week, he suggested that the city not raise taxes on top earners, as it might drive them away. \u201cIf you raise taxes .\u2009.\u2009. where people actually vote with their feet and head to Florida, then you\u2019re not serving the policy\u2019s goal,\u201d he told the Association for a Better New York.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Yang suggested, too, that the city consider incentives to lure suburban workers who have been away from their Manhattan desks for a year to give the commute another chance. This, too, is worth trying: Why not give people vouchers to take commuter rail, with expiration dates within a couple of months, to get those bored at home to try a trip into town? (Yang rival and city Comptroller\u00a0Scott Stringer predictably accused him of practicing \u201cmuni\u00adcipal Reaganomics.\u201d)\u00a0<\/p>\n

Yang also suggested that Mayor Bill de Blasio not spend the entire $6 billion in relief money that we\u2019re getting from the feds. As the city could face years of deficits, Yang said, it would be prudent to squirrel 70 percent away.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This is sensible \u2014 but another rival, former de Blasio legal counsel Maya Wiley, attacked him. \u201cOur city deserves a serious leader, not a mini-Trump,\u201d her spokeswoman said. Huh?<\/p>\n

Eric Adams, Brooklyn borough president, didn\u2019t need a policy reason to tackle Yang. At an event \u00adaccepting a union endorsement \u2014 where he should have been in a good mood \u2014 Adams said that \u201cpeople like Andrew Yang\u201d have \u201cnever held a job in [their] entire life. .\u2009.\u2009. you are not going to come to this city and think you are going to disregard the people.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Yang is a lawyer. He has worked at startups, ran a school-testing firm and founded and ran a nonprofit training people to be entrepreneurs in struggling cities. He has always had a job. And he has lived in New York for a quarter-century.\u00a0<\/p>\n

What\u2019s behind the attacks is that the insiders are growing afraid of the outsider.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The insiders\u2019 bet is that Yang\u2019s front-runner status will disappear as voters pay attention. Yang has about 16 percent of the vote, closely followed by Adams. Half of voters remain undecided.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But the idea that people are suddenly going to learn who Stringer and Adams are and get excited about them is rather tenuous. And as the latest Fontas Advisors poll shows, sure, people \u2014 85 percent \u2014 know who Yang is.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But they also know who Stringer and Adams are, at 64 and 62 percent. Wiley, at 42 percent, has room to introduce herself. The others don\u2019t.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Stringer and Adams also face a threat from other candidates with low name recognition. Ray McGuire was a career investment banker; Kathryn Garcia ran the Sanitation Department. Only one-third of voters know who they are. As voters learn, they may like what they see, cutting into the undecideds.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The final wild card: ranked-choice voting. Sure, Adams and Stringer could fight with each other for a few votes, only to see everyone split their first choice between them, then pick Yang, the affable Yankees-game<\/a> attendee, as their second choice, putting him at the top.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Yang\u2019s critics aren\u2019t entirely wrong: He demonstrates an off-putting lack of familiarity with city government, and some of his ideas\u00a0\u2014 like building a casino on Governors Island \u2014 are just weird and dumb. But for voters desiring change in a crisis, his well-known major rivals are too familiar with government.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Nicole Gelinas is a contributing editor of City Journal.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n

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