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Re:Taxing robots: SF supervisor wants California to talk abo... by benlorenzetti on Sunday August 27, 2017 @11:40PM (#15114276)
But taxing capital would still be easier than taxing robot work, yes? Since taxing robots is effectively a tax on a difficult to define subset of capital
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Re:Taxing robots: SF supervisor wants California to talk abo... by URSpider94 on Monday August 28, 2017 @05:36AM (#15115442)
Not arguing with you there -- taxing robot work sounds almost nonsensical. If anything it would be a great jobs program for tax lawyers who will tie themselves in knots figuring out how to circumvent this ill-defined tax.

Taxing capital is very straightforward from a regulations standpoint. It's only hard in that the capital will tend to flee the tax.

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