Democrat presidential candidate Bill De Blasio announced on Thursday that if elected, he would impose a national “robot tax” and create a new bureaucracy to regulate automation.
In a Wired op-ed, De Blasio wrote: “As President, I would issue a robot tax for corporations displacing humans, and create a federal agency to oversee automation.”
He said his “proposal would institute a ‘robot tax’ on large companies that eliminate jobs through increased automation and fail to provide adequate replacement jobs.”
De Blasio called for a tax increase by taking away full expensing of new equipment, and said companies would “be required to pay five years of payroll taxes up front for each employee eliminated.”
The Democrat presidential field has proposed a long list of tax increases.
Link: https://www.atr.org/bill-de-blasio-president-i-would-issue-robot-tax?amp
Replies to: "Is there anything Dem Commies do not want to tax?"
- Is there anything Dem Commies do not want to tax? [LINK]
- CC72 - 8:04pm 9/6/19
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- It's not a bad start of an idea. - LehighND - 4:16pm 9/7/19
- Abortions? - BaronVonZemo - 11:34am 9/7/19
- Proposing one would be an interesting political maneuver. [NT]
- MAS - 11:45am 9/7/19
- NPV of average human's lifetime tax payments [NT] - Iggle - 2:44pm 9/7/19
- Proposing one would be an interesting political maneuver. [NT]
- MAS - 11:45am 9/7/19
- In a saner world “de Blasio” would be a comedy show. [NT] - TakethetrainKnute - 6:43am 9/7/19
- Good thing you thought about his idea before knee-jerking that post. [NT] - jimbasil - 2:46am 9/7/19
- another wacko from NY and not a real candidate. But we all agree - irishscooter - 8:48pm 9/6/19
- Classic. I bet he loves Jersey gas stations. - jakers - 8:43pm 9/6/19