Presidential hopeful Bill de Blasio wants a tax on robots

Presidential hopeful Bill de Blasio wants a tax on robots

Mayor Bill De Blasio wants to hold robots accountable. New York Mayor and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Bill de Blasio says American workers need to be protected from automation . In an opinion article published last week on Wired, he said as president he would issue a robot tax for corporations displacing humans and would create a federal agency to oversee automation.

"The scale of automation in our economy is increasing far faster than most people realize, and its impact on working people in America and across the world, unless corralled, will be devastating," de Blasio wrote.

De Blasio would call […]

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