Should robots pay taxes?
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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.
