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Breaking up tech companies would be using a 20th century tool on a 21st century problem.

Andrew Yang had a better idea. Put a VAT on big tech and use that to fund UBI.

https://www.yang2020.com/policies/value-added-tax/

It makes perfect sense. Tech enjoys massive benefits from scalability and from eating up competition. It's easy to use both - break them up, then tax the shit out of them so that they can't grow into leviathans as fast.

Why not try both?

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