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Comment by Ro Khanna
U.S. Representative for California's 17th congressional district
At a time when machines are replacing low- and middle-income workers, we want there to be an incentive to get people to a basic income.
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(2016)
2y ago
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Source URL (mercurynews.com) is blocked from WebFetch access, and web.archive.org is also blocked, so I cannot directly verify the quote text against the primary source.
Notes from secondary research:
- Quote is from 2016; Ro Khanna's consistent public position (2016-2026) has been to oppose a traditional UBI in favor of an EITC expansion (GAIN Act / Brown-Khanna bill). Reading the quote in that context — "we want there to be an incentive to get people to a basic income" — it plausibly refers to using work-based incentives (EITC) as a path to a basic-income-like floor, rather than endorsing UBI as the statement "Implement a universal basic income" would require.
- The associated vote is "for" on UBI, but Khanna's stated position is actually against UBI. A human reviewer should consider whether the quote belongs on this statement at all, or whether the vote should be re-examined.
- As recently as April 2026, Khanna continued to reference EITC-style targeted credits and a $3,000 check proposal with Sen. Sanders, not UBI.
Because the primary source cannot be retrieved, I am leaving this as ai_unverifiable rather than verifying or reclassifying.
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-7
· 10d ago
replying to Ro Khanna