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> - filing taxes for each machine (companies may have millions of machines) Yes. It may be harder to figure out the definition of a machine - e.g. a computer c
by avmich 2y ago
> - filing taxes for each machine (companies may have millions of machines)
Yes. It may be harder to figure out the definition of a machine - e.g. a computer can have multiple programs running, is it one machine? - but this is one direction.
> - determining how much income all machines make
Yes, it's tricky, but we can try. For example, some temporary measurements which can be updated every few years?
> - taxing cloud usage
Yes, we can measure power, bandwidth, network sessions for that.
- antifa 2y agoWouldn't it be easier to increase taxes for high profit income and give tax incentives for increasing human labor on payroll?
- nuancebydefault 2y agoHigh profit income is already taxed in a cumulative way (at least where i live). Profit equals revenue minus costs. It is financially relatively interesting today to have a high cost (typically going to machines, buildings, energy, advertising, financial services and business trips), because it makes the (tax on) profits lower.