Today San Francisco Will Consider a Tax on Robots
When robots steal our jobs, should they be made to pay taxes? That’s something residents of San Francisco are being asked to think about by Jane Kim, who represents the city’s District 6 on its board of supervisors. She wants to find cash to help folks out with retraining or a universal basic income when robots take over their toils, and the suggestion for generating that money is a tax on robots.
San Francisco certainly isn’t stuffed full of robots right now. But it’s easy enough to imagine a none-too-distant future […]
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