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Re:If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? by ceejayoz on Monday December 15, 2025 @02:03PM (#46278815)
> But you cannot seriously argue that capital owners "avoid contributing to the financing of our states and social systems".

Sure we can. Peter Thiel managed to put $5 billion in his Roth IRA.

https://www.propublica.org/article/billionaires-tax-avoidanc...

"Using stock deals unavailable to most people, Thiel has taken a retirement account worth less than $2,000 in 1999 and spun it into a $5 billion windfall... What’s more, as long as Thiel waits to withdraw his money until April 2027, when he is six months shy of his 60th birthday, he will never have to pay a penny of tax on those billions."

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Re:If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? by thethimble on Monday December 15, 2025 @02:22PM (#46279097)
But this strategy is also eligible to you. Nothing is stopping you from turning your Roth IRA into a multi billion tax free gain.
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Re:If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? by unethical_ban on Monday December 15, 2025 @04:16PM (#46280784)
I choose to interpret this as satire.
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Re:If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? by ceejayoz on Monday December 15, 2025 @02:25PM (#46279151)
"Using stock deals unavailable to most people" is the very first phrase I quoted.
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Re:If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? by bcrosby95 on Monday December 15, 2025 @03:53PM (#46280481)
Damn, I knew when I picked "not billionaire" I would regret it.
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Re:If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? by machomaster on Monday December 15, 2025 @07:31PM (#46283102)
This is because of badly organized incentives. What we should do is to implement a tax on poor people. This will make them understand that being poor is less profitable than being rich and they will be motivated to become rich.
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Re:If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? by tenuousemphasis on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @03:19AM (#46286076)
There's nothing wrong with murder because you could also murder people.
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Re:If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? by jimbokun on Monday December 15, 2025 @02:26PM (#46279167)
Yes!

This is exactly the kind of thing I was looking for.

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Re:If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? by Tangurena2 on Monday December 15, 2025 @04:55PM (#46281283)
When Romney was running for President, much was made about his $100M holdings in his IRA accounts. At that time, I was working for a company who sold software to report pension (and pension-like) benefits. So we all had to become pretty familiar with ERISA and EFAST and the retirement laws every time they changed. We even had more than one attorney and several CPAs working on our staff. When the attorney tried explaining how Romney moved $100M from Bain into his IRA accounts, we all saying things that were like "that can't be legal".
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