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The advancement of artificial intelligence found one senator once again reaching into the pockets of others with a proposed redistribution of wealth dubbed the “robot tax.”
Just as investors aim to get in on the ground floor to maximize their potential earnings from an emerging industry, anti-capitalist grifters refuse to miss out on the possibility of crippling a true free market with the imposition of new taxes.
So it was that a dire warning from Democrats about the potential loss of 100 million jobs to AI within a decade found the same party fond of telling Americans to “learn to code,” promoting a new kind of sin tax for industries that would dare turn to automation.
According to suggestions in the report released Monday by the minority members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP) Committee ahead of a Thursday hearing, 15 of 20 major workforce sectors could replace more than half of their jobs with robots or AI. Estimates further project that about 89% of the fast food workforce, or about 3 million jobs, will be lost to automation. more
Jackass Joe hit hardest…
I can’t wait to read when 100% of politicians will lose their jobs. AI FTW!
I see this as part of the creep to tax anything with a computer:
Cars, trucks, ebikes, computers, tablets, phones, etc.
There is a LOT of robot software out there!
democRATz only care about “the people” until bribed, like Dennis (the menace) Kucinich who was the last hold out for Obamacare until the Obamboozler came to Cleveland and gave him an ice-cream cone and an airplane ride in AF-1.
…I dont know how many of you are familiar with the Steve Earle song “Copperhead Road”, but if you listen to the lyrics it takes us through three generations of Pettimores selling illegal substances, always being hounded by Federal agents. Ive heard this song for years and didnt think too deeply about it, but one day the lyric jumped out at me for some reason;
“The revenue man wanted Grand Dad bad”, and the light switched on.
The government wasnt worried about WHAT they were selling, good or bad, because the government ITSELF sold and continues to sell the same things.
No, the government was only mad because they werent getting their CUT.
And they are willing to KILL for it.
…but I should have knowm, its been ever thus.
Do you know what the first war the first President of the US under the Comstitution of 1789, none other than Founding Father George Washington engaged in after his election?
It was the Whiskey Rebellion,so named because it was over unpaid whiskey taxes, and was conducted by the US against her own citizens over TAX POLICY, the first Federally levied tax.
Check it out.
https://www.americanhistorycentral.com/entries/whiskey-rebellion/
…so its been ever thus. They dont give a rats ass about health, or jobs, or any damn thing else; they just want to get PAID and are willing to kill you for it.
…the Steve Earle song is good, BTW. If you dont already know it, here, enjoy…
https://youtu.be/xvaEJzoaYZk?si=Xc0q2f9_SlT3bS3x
No tax on tips.
No tax on overtime.
No tax on Social Security,
No tax on robots.
https://iotwreport.com/california-democrat-proposes-robot-tax-to-protect-workers/
…I generally do not like the Beatles, but they have Democrats dead-on here…
“Let me tell you how it will be
There’s one for you, nineteen for me
Cos I’m the taxman, yeah, I’m the taxman
Should five per cent appear too small
Be thankful I don’t take it all
Cos I’m the taxman, yeah I’m the taxman
If you drive a car, I’ll tax the street
If you try to sit, I’ll tax your seat
If you get too cold I’ll tax the heat
If you take a walk, I’ll tax your feet”
-George Harrison, “Taxman”
https://youtu.be/uPza86F-iIo?si=m-2pCVttp5TIfvqs
Taxes are the lifeblood of every Kleptocracy.
It’s no longer about financing gov’ts “essential services” (if it ever was) but about amassing a pool of money from which to steal.
“If they don’t like Taxation without Representation, wait until they get Taxation WITH Representation.”
(Pitt the Younger (I think))
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …
Once two strangers climbed old Rocky Top
Looking for a moonshine still
Strangers ain’t come down from Rocky Top
Reckon they never will
^^^ Good song, as long as not the Dolly version.
https://youtu.be/_n9prNixjbg?si=tOYu-ImpGKH3qvJ0
Well, the G men, T men, revenuers too
Searchin’ for the place where he made his brew
They were lookin’, tryin’ to book him
But my pappy kept a-cookin’
Whshhhoooh… white lightnin’
^^^ also good…
https://youtu.be/WE5pM1HXxlI?si=2i8BCOAFJQzUc3WL
SNS, another good one is Robert Mitchum singing Thunder Road from the movie Thunder Road about moonshiners. They used to play this on the radio years ago and occasionally I hear it on Sirius XM satellite radio.
^^^
https://youtu.be/o1CYKDoYCIM?si=q28cJ4gyzh1uAVK4
Thanks for posting the above video.