Anti-tax activist Grover Norquist is not a fan of the "robot tax" recently proposed by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.
"A robot tax is a particularly stupid tax. It is a tax on productivity — a tax on growth," Grover told the Washington Examiner in an email exchange.
Gates made the suggestion during an interview with Quartz in February, in response to the number of jobs being lost to automation. "If a human worker does $50,000 of work in a factory, that income is taxed," he said. "If a robot comes in to do the same thing, you’d think that we’d tax […]
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