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The big question is being able to finance basic income when a large and growing part of the population is unemployed. Where is the tax base?
by JoachimS 12y ago
The big question is being able to finance basic income when a large and growing part of the population is unemployed. Where is the tax base?
- zokier 12y ago> Where is the tax base? In corporations?
- justincormack 12y agoOr on robots?
- JoachimS 12y agoMore plausible since it directly connects to the problem at hand. But when you replace humans with algorithms how do you determine what to tax and how much?
- justincormack 12y agoValue added taxes/sales are plausible if they are selling stuff.
- JoachimS 12y agoCorporations can move out of the jurisdiction with corp tax much easier than humans. And judging by Apple etc, they are pretty good at getting tax brakes, buy legislation.
- anigbrowl 12y agoThe capital-intensive entities that own all the robots and whose revenue comes from human consumption.
- JoachimS 12y agoHuman consumption hinges on the fact that the humans have income to buy stuff to consume. Are you saying we shall tax the company profits in order to pay people basic income to provide means needed to consume stuff to create these required profits. And that the profits are staying in the tax jurisdiction as well as not getting tax breaks the owners lobbied for using previous profits.