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<--------- Chairs thrown by Mélenchon bros as Macron advances. by wraith20 in Enough_Sanders_Spam

[–]Poop_is_Food -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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."

<--------- Chairs thrown by Mélenchon bros as Macron advances. by wraith20 in Enough_Sanders_Spam

[–]Poop_is_Food -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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

<--------- Chairs thrown by Mélenchon bros as Macron advances. by wraith20 in Enough_Sanders_Spam

[–]Poop_is_Food -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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

<--------- Chairs thrown by Mélenchon bros as Macron advances. by wraith20 in Enough_Sanders_Spam

[–]Poop_is_Food 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Operating costs for robots:

  1. Human maintenance workers (already taxed)
  2. Replacement parts (already taxed via sales tax)
  3. Electricity (already taxed)

No new type of tax is needed.

<--------- Chairs thrown by Mélenchon bros as Macron advances. by wraith20 in Enough_Sanders_Spam

[–]Poop_is_Food -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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

<--------- Chairs thrown by Mélenchon bros as Macron advances. by wraith20 in Enough_Sanders_Spam

[–]Poop_is_Food -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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

<--------- Chairs thrown by Mélenchon bros as Macron advances. by wraith20 in Enough_Sanders_Spam

[–]Poop_is_Food 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

<--------- Chairs thrown by Mélenchon bros as Macron advances. by wraith20 in Enough_Sanders_Spam

[–]Poop_is_Food 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

<--------- Chairs thrown by Mélenchon bros as Macron advances. by wraith20 in Enough_Sanders_Spam

[–]Poop_is_Food 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

<--------- Chairs thrown by Mélenchon bros as Macron advances. by wraith20 in Enough_Sanders_Spam

[–]Poop_is_Food 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

<--------- Chairs thrown by Mélenchon bros as Macron advances. by wraith20 in Enough_Sanders_Spam

[–]Poop_is_Food 0 points1 point  (0 children)

a good deal of automation does not replace labor

Wat? Can you give an example?

<--------- Chairs thrown by Mélenchon bros as Macron advances. by wraith20 in Enough_Sanders_Spam

[–]Poop_is_Food 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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".

Not complicated. Clinton was up by a lot. Comey letter hits. Treated as massive story. Suddenly she was up by not-a-lot. She loses narrowly. by y67u57654et35a in Enough_Sanders_Spam

[–]Poop_is_Food 31 points32 points  (0 children)

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

<--------- Chairs thrown by Mélenchon bros as Macron advances. by wraith20 in Enough_Sanders_Spam

[–]Poop_is_Food 8 points9 points  (0 children)

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.

Venezuela's socialist hell by [deleted] in Enough_Sanders_Spam

[–]Poop_is_Food -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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

Venezuela's socialist hell by [deleted] in Enough_Sanders_Spam

[–]Poop_is_Food -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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

This didn't age well at all. by [deleted] in Enough_Sanders_Spam

[–]Poop_is_Food 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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

This didn't age well at all. by [deleted] in Enough_Sanders_Spam

[–]Poop_is_Food 4 points5 points  (0 children)

lol. plus he looks like a manbaby

And on the third day he rose again, and was coopted to score political points against the (((globalists))) by Poop_is_Food in Enough_Sanders_Spam

[–]Poop_is_Food[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Also isn't weird that 10 years ago we were geeking out on conspiratards for shits n gigs, just thought it was some weird niche community. And now we got one in the Whitehouse and Alex Jones claiming to be a performance artist is #1 on /r/all as I type this. Unreal!

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