Should robots pay taxes?
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Should robots pay taxes? European lawmakers want robots to pay taxes - Jun. 22, 2016[^]
If robots are going to steal human jobs and otherwise disrupt society, they should at the very least pay taxes.
That's really stupid. Taxes aren't levied for stealing jobs or disrupting society. I've been stealing jobs and disrupting society for years and don't pay taxes. /ravi
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Misleading headline. The article asks is OWNERS of robots should pay taxes. Of course this is also utterly stupid. No labour saving device has ever been taxed, and the supposition that workers being replaced needs some kind of protectionist recompense is so typical of the EU (who has pretty much also banned Uber) that it makes me want to vote out! Other similar EU propositions, enforcing quotas on Netflix and Amazon for European films. If people dont want to watch European films then make them better! Protectionism ALWAYS destroys in the end!
You europeans are tasting a bit of what Italy has done since the 80s (when the American Money for Marshall plan stopped raining from the heavens). Tax this, tax that and tax that too. We even pay taxes upon... the taxes (which is forbidden but circumvented)!! When I saw the last gas bill I almost choked because I had to pay tha VAT upon the Excise...
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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You europeans are tasting a bit of what Italy has done since the 80s (when the American Money for Marshall plan stopped raining from the heavens). Tax this, tax that and tax that too. We even pay taxes upon... the taxes (which is forbidden but circumvented)!! When I saw the last gas bill I almost choked because I had to pay tha VAT upon the Excise...
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
This is why the EU needs the UK. It needs the UKs influence and simplicity, its openness and freedom, to hack a path through these ridiculous and abusive laws. Would the EU technocrats support a UK style ecconomic system though? Thats the problem, and thats why the UK will always sit uneasilly in the EU.
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This is why the EU needs the UK. It needs the UKs influence and simplicity, its openness and freedom, to hack a path through these ridiculous and abusive laws. Would the EU technocrats support a UK style ecconomic system though? Thats the problem, and thats why the UK will always sit uneasilly in the EU.
Munchies_Matt wrote:
why the UK will always sit uneasilly in the EU
It might be sitting (un)easily outside the EU by tomorrow... ;P
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Should robots pay taxes? European lawmakers want robots to pay taxes - Jun. 22, 2016[^]
That's the funniest thing I've read in a very long time. So...since the robots will be putting into Social security, can they take out from it? I don't pay (or get paid) for my Roomba, seems like a long-term employment issue for my poor little electronic person.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics." - Benjamin Disraeli
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Should robots pay taxes? European lawmakers want robots to pay taxes - Jun. 22, 2016[^]
Yup, and tractors should pay taxes, too. And crane drivers should pay 500x tac, because they're putting that many Egyptian pyramid builders out of work. Deal with change when changes occur. Trying to deal with changes beforehand is like trying to polka on quicksand.
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Same argument could have been made for the introduction of the steam-engine. It's simple; we'll have fewer steel-driving people, and hence, fewer taxes. Taxing the engine itself is nonsense.
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Indeed. But whether something is nonsense or not has never stopped politicians. :sigh:
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
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This is why the EU needs the UK. It needs the UKs influence and simplicity, its openness and freedom, to hack a path through these ridiculous and abusive laws. Would the EU technocrats support a UK style ecconomic system though? Thats the problem, and thats why the UK will always sit uneasilly in the EU.
Munchies_Matt wrote:
UKs influence and simplicity, its openness and freedom
Are you sure you are speaking about the UK?
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
