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I'd be very surprised if we didn't start to hear calls for a tax on the robots.

• tg3 13y ago
  property tax would be reasonable - income tax would be ludicrous.
  • fnordfnordfnord 13y ago
    >income tax would be ludicrous. But why? Income tax is supposed to support the infrastructure needed to maintain and protect all of our great stuff. The fact that robots did all the work doesn't negate the need for roads and wars and bank bailouts. I wonder, if we still had slavery, would slave owners be required to pay income tax for the income generated by their slaves?
  • gte910h 13y ago
    High national property taxes may be the key trick to handle the concentrations of wealth
• marshray 13y ago
  The government is way ahead of you. Capital equipment is already taxed for businesses. I believe this can count for pure software systems as well.
• gte910h 13y ago
  That would just drive the goods out of country, no?