Robots come with high up-front payments and low salaries, humans are cheaper to hire and more expensive to "run" - in economic terms, the choice between employi

Robots come with high up-front payments and low salaries, humans are cheaper to hire and more expensive to "run" - in economic terms, the choice between employing humans vs robots is a trade-off between capital and operational expenditures. Taxation is still the go-to way to influence economic decision, so it's not a surprise that lawmakers try to use it to balance out the difference. From that standpoint it's actually not a surreal idea.