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| Tax Experts Bill and Melinda: Robots must also pay taxes. 'It's OK.' |
| 2017-02-21 |
| [Breitbart] Microsoft founder Bill Gates called for a robot tax to offset the loss of jobs done by humans as a result of advancements in automation during an interview with Quartz. "Certainly there will be taxes that relate to automation. Right now, the human worker who does, say, $50,000 worth of work in a factory, that income is taxed and you get income tax, social security tax, all those things," declared Gates. "If a robot comes in to do the same thing, you’d think that we’d tax the robot at a similar level." "There are many ways to take that extra productivity and generate more taxes. Exactly how you’d do it, measure it, you know, it’s interesting for people to start talking about now," he continued. "Some of it can come on the profits that are generated by the labor-saving efficiency there. Some of it can come directly in some type of robot tax. I don’t think the robot companies are going to be outraged that there might be a tax. It’s OK." |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #12 And bricks should not pay taxes? |
| Posted by: Phaper Crugum8267 2017-02-21 22:23 |
| #11 H1B would work a lot better if a fixed number were sold to the highest bidders. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2017-02-21 18:18 |
| #10 The most dangerous aspect of robots progressivism is logical thinking. |
| Posted by: Nero White 3083 2017-02-21 17:47 |
| #9 to offset the loss of jobs done by humans Wonder why Bill didn't propose a salary import labor tax when he was sponsoring the H1B program? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-02-21 16:23 |
| #8 My operating system is sub-contracted. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2017-02-21 15:12 |
| #7 " Wait till the Unions hear about this." UAW United Automated Workers union. /sarc off |
| Posted by: Warthog 2017-02-21 14:32 |
| #6 Analog story 82 or hereabout. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-02-21 14:31 |
| #5 Wait till the Unions hear about t his. |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2017-02-21 12:32 |
| #4 What does Windows offer that Linux doesn't? There are plenty of word processing and spreadsheet applications out there. There are plenty of different browsers and email applications. You can even do like Hillary did and set up your own email server. The next time Gates declares my version of Windows obsolete is when I'll make the switch to Linux. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2017-02-21 11:26 |
| #3 I get more and more interested in Linux. Gates software is a lot like his ideas. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2017-02-21 11:00 |
| #2 Makes me (even more) embarrassed to use this guy's software. Between this sort of crap and MSNBC, almost think that using Linux would be a conservative cause. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2017-02-21 09:38 |
| #1 Next a California pol proposed to give the vote to robots as fewer human workers are available as more businesses flee old Cali. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-02-21 07:55 |