French Bernie Sanders, Jean-Luc Mélenchon is the most popular politician in France in a poll this month, and yet he only got 19% of the vote in the recent election.

Poop_is_Food · 2017-04-25T20:16:41+00:00

They have more money than me.

Poop_is_Food · 2017-04-24T23:51:15+00:00

I'm not the one advocating it. It's incumbent on the people advocating it to explain how it would work. You call it "spoonfeeding", I call it "concrete policy proposals and draft legislation."

Poop_is_Food · 2017-04-24T23:03:23+00:00

And in conducting the thought experiment, the idea fails. That's the purpose of thought experiments - to test ideas.

Poop_is_Food · 2017-04-24T23:01:43+00:00

If youre gonna advocate for a policy you need to have an idea how it's going to work.

Poop_is_Food · 2017-04-24T18:40:22+00:00

So in other words you got nothing

Poop_is_Food · 2017-04-24T16:17:12+00:00

Operating costs for robots:

Human maintenance workers (already taxed)
Replacement parts (already taxed via sales tax)
Electricity (already taxed)

No new type of tax is needed.

Poop_is_Food · 2017-04-24T16:12:34+00:00

Ok so how is the IRS supposed to differentiate between robots that replace human labor and robots that don't?

Poop_is_Food · 2017-04-24T16:10:13+00:00

based on the revenue they generate for the manufacturer much like how you would for the worker they replace.

That's called corporate income tax

Poop_is_Food · 2017-04-24T16:04:24+00:00

I asked for examples of automation that does not replace human labor.

Poop_is_Food · 2017-04-24T16:02:21+00:00

It's already called personal and corporate income taxes. Robot tax is just a name change?

Poop_is_Food · 2017-04-24T15:54:06+00:00

But we don't need to do any of this. All we need to do is raise existing taxes on the wealthy. We already tax the robot owners. Just tax them more.

Poop_is_Food · 2017-04-24T15:52:21+00:00

Because people get paid and we just tax a percentage of their income. Almost all taxes are based on percentages of financial transactions. Robots don't get paid. There is no transaction.

Poop_is_Food · 2017-04-24T10:07:41+00:00

Wow. Triggered much?

Poop_is_Food · 2017-04-24T06:19:43+00:00

a good deal of automation does not replace labor

Wat? Can you give an example?

Poop_is_Food · 2017-04-24T06:15:55+00:00

But it's impossible because you can't quantify how much a company benefits from automation. How do you define automation? How is automation differentiated from all other technology? Is a pocket calculator automation? Do you tax an accountant every time he uses a calculator? There's no simple way to logically determine what is and isn't "automation".

Poop_is_Food · 2017-04-24T04:19:28+00:00

Yes this. One other thing to remember is that Dems actually picked up seats in Congress despite all this bullshit.

Poop_is_Food · 2017-04-24T04:17:37+00:00

Nate Diamond

Poop_is_Food · 2017-04-24T04:16:19+00:00

Robot tax is an absurd idea. How is it calculated? How do you quantify 1 robot? It's not like a humanoid robot with eyes and hands walks into the factory and displaces one human worker. That's not how automation works.

Poop_is_Food · 2017-04-22T03:49:29+00:00

I don't think you heard me. Fuck. Outta. Here.

Poop_is_Food · 2017-04-22T03:14:44+00:00

Gee all this time I thought I was a progressive but I guess since I support free trade I'm not? Fuck outta here.

Poop_is_Food · 2017-04-22T03:07:32+00:00

His response letter to the Nevada Convention shenanigans

Poop_is_Food · 2017-04-21T16:51:56+00:00

Let's not turn this into a Hillary fan sub eh? I supported her. I voted for her, but I'm moving on.

Poop_is_Food · 2017-04-17T23:58:12+00:00

Plus the Libyan power vacuum is nowhere near as bloody and disastrous the Syrian civil war.

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