Q1. Entrepreneur and Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang has earned a spot on the first Democratic debate stage by garnering campaign donations from 65,000 individuals. How do you feel about each of these policy proposals from Yang? (Please choose 5, one from each pair.)
overall
custom
male
female
rep
ind
dem
18-29
30-44
45-64
65+
Federal govt pays $1,000 a month to every US citizen over the age of 18 (aka 'Freedom Dividend') -- for
23%
31%
15%
0%
26%
45%
37%
22%
21%
23%
Federal govt pays $1,000 a month to every US citizen over the age of 18 (aka 'Freedom Dividend') -- against
66%
61%
71%
88%
68%
40%
63%
69%
65%
66%
A 10% value added tax (a sales tax levied at each stage of production) to help fund 'Freedom Dividend' -- for
17%
25%
8%
0%
19%
32%
26%
18%
14%
17%
A 10% value added tax (a sales tax levied at each stage of production) to help fund 'Freedom Dividend' -- against
71%
66%
76%
88%
73%
51%
74%
69%
72%
71%
Mandate NCAA to pay market-based compensation to athletes -- for
42%
43%
40%
9%
53%
63%
76%
42%
34%
42%
Mandate NCAA to pay market-based compensation to athletes -- against
47%
46%
47%
79%
38%
22%
24%
48%
50%
47%
Geoengineering (i.e shoring up glaciers, cloud seeding, etc...) to flight global warming -- for
36%
40%
32%
8%
43%
58%
63%
30%
35%
36%
Geoengineering (i.e shoring up glaciers, cloud seeding, etc...) to flight global warming -- against
50%
48%
53%
80%
50%
18%
37%
57%
49%
50%
$6bb fund to help struggling shopping malls find new uses for/re purpose the space -- for
30%
31%
29%
4%
37%
49%
63%
33%
21%
30%
$6bb fund to help struggling shopping malls find new uses for/re purpose the space -- against
57%
60%
53%
84%
55%
29%
37%
56%
61%
57%
None of these
6%
6%
6%
12%
3%
3%
0%
2%
10%
6%
Q2. More proposals from candidate Yang (Please choose 5, one from each pair.)
overall
custom
male
female
rep
ind
dem
18-29
30-44
45-64
65+
Govt gives each working age American $100/yr to donate to non profit of their choice -- for
20%
28%
12%
2%
25%
33%
37%
17%
19%
20%
Govt gives each working age American $100/yr to donate to non profit of their choice -- against
72%
68%
77%
89%
72%
55%
63%
75%
73%
72%
Free marriage counseling for all -- for
41%
48%
34%
26%
42%
56%
51%
48%
34%
41%
Free marriage counseling for all -- against
50%
46%
55%
66%
52%
32%
49%
42%
56%
50%
Increase percentage of energy provided by nuclear -- for
52%
63%
41%
67%
50%
37%
76%
36%
58%
52%
Increase percentage of energy provided by nuclear -- against
40%
30%
50%
22%
50%
48%
37%
49%
34%
40%
Tax on carbon emissions -- for
50%
48%
51%
5%
51%
97%
63%
50%
47%
50%
Tax on carbon emissions -- against
43%
44%
42%
80%
43%
1%
37%
44%
43%
43%
$1 billion to fund local journalism -- for
28%
29%
26%
2%
34%
48%
51%
26%
24%
28%
$1 billion to fund local journalism -- against
59%
57%
62%
79%
57%
42%
49%
60%
61%
59%
None of these
3%
2%
5%
6%
2%
2%
0%
0%
6%
3%
Q3. More Yang proposals (Please choose 5, one from each pair.)
overall
custom
male
female
rep
ind
dem
18-29
30-44
45-64
65+
Mandate vice president needs to confirm president's decision to launch nukes -- for
56%
52%
60%
21%
72%
75%
88%
58%
48%
56%
Mandate vice president needs to confirm president's decision to launch nukes -- against
40%
45%
35%
72%
30%
17%
25%
39%
44%
40%
Body cameras for all police officers -- for
87%
82%
91%
76%
92%
92%
88%
88%
85%
87%
Body cameras for all police officers -- against
10%
14%
6%
18%
8%
4%
12%
9%
10%
10%
Create a Department of the Attention Economy to focus on minimizing antisocial impact of phones, video games, social media on kids -- for
23%
22%
24%
9%
22%
40%
51%
18%
21%
23%
Create a Department of the Attention Economy to focus on minimizing antisocial impact of phones, video games, social media on kids -- against
68%
69%
67%
80%
74%
48%
49%
73%
68%
68%
All new laws have sunset provision (wherein they are removed after certain amount of time unless Congress reauthorizes) -- for
53%
55%
52%
53%
66%
40%
53%
66%
45%
53%
All new laws have sunset provision (wherein they are removed after certain amount of time unless Congress reauthorizes) -- against
41%
38%
43%
37%
36%
52%
61%
28%
46%
41%
0.1% tax on all financial transactions (i.e stock and bond trades) -- for
45%
43%
46%
5%
54%
77%
51%
50%
40%
45%
0.1% tax on all financial transactions (i.e stock and bond trades) -- against
47%
48%
46%
79%
44%
16%
49%
40%
52%
47%
None of these
3%
2%
4%
6%
1%
3%
0%
0%
6%
3%
Past FF opinion related to some of Yang's proposals
Carbon Tax
May 2016
38% support a carbon tax (more than support a tax on soda, about the same pct that support a tax on plastic bags or gambling, and fewer than support a tax on alcohol or tobacco)
October 2016
7% said a carbon tax was their most favored way of dealing with climate change, among the least popular of the available options (subsidize clean power was most favored, followed by energy efficiency -- 24% said climate change was not a problem, so do nothing)
Universal Basic Income (aka 'Freedom Dividend')
June 2016
By 39% to 34% ppl said they preferred $13k a year in universal basic income to current social service apparatus given $200mm in presumed savings to the former
Body Cameras on Police Officers
August 2014
82% support cops in body cameras in their neighborhood, 9% oppose
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