@yang
I'm not looking to abolish the free market

There are 250 million adults in the United States. Your plan is to steal (tax) $250 billion dollars a month from the free market (that's $2,500,000,000,000 a year), redistribute the stolen money across the population.
Prices on everything would skyrocket out of control. Just look at what government backed student loans did to college tuition. You would destroy the free market.

@yang
Value added tax and UBI are NOT socialist.

I agree with you that VAT is not socialist. Many conservatives have proposed VAT's to replace income tax. Unfortunately, you are not trying to replace a tax, you are adding yet another burdensome tax on people.
UBI is the epitome of socialism or more specifically communism. You are taking money from the population and redistributing it. Exactly what is your definition of socialism if UBI does not fit?

@yang
FD means saving capitalist societies from themselves.

This is the biggest problem with Democrats. They believe that they are wiser than the population as a whole and that the people need government to save them from themselves. This is one of the reasons that socialist/communist states tend towards authoritarianism. The only way to "protect" people from themselves is to control them.

@Lilbroomstick @yang
We have been hearing this for years. But unemployment has been at record lows for most of President Trump's tenure. Even if you believe it will happen eventually (I don't), now is certainly not the time that it is needed.