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Related: About this forumShould Robots Pay Social Security Taxes?
Automation: Meet your new coworker, they don't eat, sleep, or pay social security taxes, but maybe they should?
Automation is about to cause a crisis in the work force by displacing American workers with highly skilled, fully functional robots...
Currently taxes favor employers who use machines where people once worked, could putting a tax on those machines be a way to fund social security and medicare in our increasing automated work place?
Bill Gates thinks there should be an automation tax. Find out what Congressmember Ro Khanna and Thom Hartmann think about automated economy,
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,902 posts)If they are they'd be subject to FICA. If not, no.
TDale313
(7,820 posts)Maybe it wouldnt go directly into the current Social Security program, but taxing robot labor makes a lot of sense.
LonePirate
(13,431 posts)PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,902 posts)It's as if Hartmann hasn't a clue how Social Security works, which isn't true.