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They did get taxed, there is a sales tax when bought and a use tax when in operation, there are electric bills to run them, there is maintenance for the upkeep
Why are you trying to humanize a robot, do it the other way around and you are saying people should be treated like slaves again? Bought and sold, make to work 24/7, fed and housed instead of given a salary?
Sales tax and use tax are mutually exclusive. You don't pay both.
My simple questions is that if human labor pay income tax and other forms of tax to government, why not robot has to go through the same process.
If we are going to tax robots, why don't we slap those grey aliens with some kind of environmental tax while we're at it? I'm sure whatever they use to power their UFOs can't be very good for the atmosphere.
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Originally Posted by KungFuMaster
Stop working at McDonald's and get a skilled labor job.
Judging by the original question, I doubt McDonalds would hire him.
They already tax robot .What; do you think that goods robot produce more and more a larger share of isn't tax by profits made? The guy running the backhoe digs more holes which produce larger profits from the backhoe rather than men with shovels.
I feel like if all the stupid throughout this thread was wrapped up in a ball it would emit its own gravitational field.
The field would suck in more stupid from other threads and the gravity would go stronger.
Eventually a critical mass would be reached as even light could not escape the combined gravitational force of so much stupid.
When the black hole had consumed the entire forum and became so compressed it could no longer withstand the pressure from the gravity, it would go supernova and blow up the internet.
Tax revenue to the government was generated upon the purchase of the robot, with maintenance of the robot, and through the efficiency of the robot (Cost savings drives up profits which are then taxed as Corporate income tax).
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