Touchy happy feely warm fuzzies gubmint gimmidatz will not ensue if we tax robots.
15 Replies to “Taxing Robots is a Stupid Idea”
Always enjoyed debating the lefties on the idea of a basic guaranteed income.
They:we need a bgi.
Me:we already have that, its called welfare.
Stopped reading at “…this argument is moot because nothing is physically produced in the US anyway. ”
No taxation of robots without representation !!
Robots must be granted the right to vote when their AI reaches the reasoning level
of humans presently deemed qualified to engage in that little understood activity.
It is a given that age restrictions must not apply in the qualifying of same.
Tax robots?
Hell, don’t give them to the private sector. The first few million automatons they produce should be dedicated to replacing greedy unionized government employees.
There, tax problem virtually solved.
I understand robots don’t pay their fair share, so it’s OK to run them into the ground.
Perhaps they could use some help, their world is so in-egalitarian.
For instance we could get them into a trade union, or ensure their programming is always politically correct so they come to the right conclusions.
Oh, they have no money and can’t vote? Screw them!
Robots must be granted the right to vote when their AI reaches the reasoning level
of humans presently deemed qualified to engage in that little understood activity.
Like the humans that voted in Clown Prince Potato Head?
Giving robots the right to vote might not work. After all the flummery concerning hacked voting machines in the last American election, imagine what might happen if someone tinkered with the software of the robots to vote for a particular candidate….
Of course, the “Russians” would be responsible for that, wouldn’t they?
I understand robots don’t pay their fair share, so it’s OK to run them into the ground.
Another cause for the SJWs: the sentient being pay gap….
Robots – does this suggest that Democrats are not being taxed now?
Tax robots or humans it makes no dif. The number of people who have no ‘place’ in society increases each year. Fundamentally destabilizing whether a democratic or communist government in power. The standardized approach seems to be ‘buying’ off the disaffected which will work until an inevitable financial collapse. All hell breaks loss after that.
The disaffected exist on both sides of the political scale. The progressives feel they are the true home for these people but Trump is proving otherwise. Radicalization of the right, which is slowly happening, should scare the progressives. Conservatives, once roused, are far more bottom line.
Define robot.
“Define robot”
Yep. How would it be anything more than a machine? The Luddites failed last time.
What is a robot anyway? If you want to rent a movie with Bell via telephone you order through a robot – an automated service, which is essentially a computer program.
Would Bill Gates agree to a tax on software that automates a role previously filled by a human? The government could take, say, 25% of the sale price of all software and reduce corporate tax on companies that don’t automate. That would certainly throw us back into the dark ages (at a faster rate than we are currently heading).
It is a stupid idea.
Which, sadly, is probably why it’ll be turned into law in Canada before you know it.
why not tax robots, we tax breathing.
Turning a tax paying worker into an unemployed, non-tax paying citizen is lamentable. Replacing a worker or several workers with AI for the sake of efficiency and productivity (both reasonable goals for a business) should burden the company with making up for the reduction in tax revenue previously paid by the employee; say for the span of 5 years or until the former employee gets another job with a similar salary and tax bracket. I’m of the belief that businesses should pay no tax, but they should pay the price for dumping unemployed workers onto the welfare rolls and burden the taxpayers of the state. Who knows, maybe *real* job placement for layed off workers, or *real* retraining programs will become a reality with the right motivation.
Always enjoyed debating the lefties on the idea of a basic guaranteed income.
They:we need a bgi.
Me:we already have that, its called welfare.
Stopped reading at “…this argument is moot because nothing is physically produced in the US anyway. ”
No taxation of robots without representation !!
Robots must be granted the right to vote when their AI reaches the reasoning level
of humans presently deemed qualified to engage in that little understood activity.
It is a given that age restrictions must not apply in the qualifying of same.
Tax robots?
Hell, don’t give them to the private sector. The first few million automatons they produce should be dedicated to replacing greedy unionized government employees.
There, tax problem virtually solved.
I understand robots don’t pay their fair share, so it’s OK to run them into the ground.
Perhaps they could use some help, their world is so in-egalitarian.
For instance we could get them into a trade union, or ensure their programming is always politically correct so they come to the right conclusions.
Oh, they have no money and can’t vote? Screw them!
Robots must be granted the right to vote when their AI reaches the reasoning level
of humans presently deemed qualified to engage in that little understood activity.
Like the humans that voted in Clown Prince Potato Head?
Giving robots the right to vote might not work. After all the flummery concerning hacked voting machines in the last American election, imagine what might happen if someone tinkered with the software of the robots to vote for a particular candidate….
Of course, the “Russians” would be responsible for that, wouldn’t they?
I understand robots don’t pay their fair share, so it’s OK to run them into the ground.
Another cause for the SJWs: the sentient being pay gap….
Robots – does this suggest that Democrats are not being taxed now?
Tax robots or humans it makes no dif. The number of people who have no ‘place’ in society increases each year. Fundamentally destabilizing whether a democratic or communist government in power. The standardized approach seems to be ‘buying’ off the disaffected which will work until an inevitable financial collapse. All hell breaks loss after that.
The disaffected exist on both sides of the political scale. The progressives feel they are the true home for these people but Trump is proving otherwise. Radicalization of the right, which is slowly happening, should scare the progressives. Conservatives, once roused, are far more bottom line.
Define robot.
“Define robot”
Yep. How would it be anything more than a machine? The Luddites failed last time.
What is a robot anyway? If you want to rent a movie with Bell via telephone you order through a robot – an automated service, which is essentially a computer program.
Would Bill Gates agree to a tax on software that automates a role previously filled by a human? The government could take, say, 25% of the sale price of all software and reduce corporate tax on companies that don’t automate. That would certainly throw us back into the dark ages (at a faster rate than we are currently heading).
It is a stupid idea.
Which, sadly, is probably why it’ll be turned into law in Canada before you know it.
why not tax robots, we tax breathing.
Turning a tax paying worker into an unemployed, non-tax paying citizen is lamentable. Replacing a worker or several workers with AI for the sake of efficiency and productivity (both reasonable goals for a business) should burden the company with making up for the reduction in tax revenue previously paid by the employee; say for the span of 5 years or until the former employee gets another job with a similar salary and tax bracket. I’m of the belief that businesses should pay no tax, but they should pay the price for dumping unemployed workers onto the welfare rolls and burden the taxpayers of the state. Who knows, maybe *real* job placement for layed off workers, or *real* retraining programs will become a reality with the right motivation.