Guaranteed Income as Quantitative Easing

[whell]

Originally Posted by Oerets

Place a tax on all the jobs replaced by automation. To be used in retraining or maintaining those displaced.
Go to a thee day and a half day workweek and increase vacation time. In order to employ more people.



Barney

...and watch those jobs go somewhere else where there is no tax on automation? It might get harder to tax somethibg when it disappears over time.

[Oerets]

Originally Posted by whell

...and watch those jobs go somewhere else where there is no tax on automation? It might get harder to tax somethibg when it disappears over time.

Tax that $hit too! If a company outsources make them pay for the workers they used then tossed away.



Barney

[whell]

Originally Posted by Oerets

Tax that $hit too! If a company outsources make them pay for the workers they used then tossed away.

Barney

Fine. Then the company moves its operations to a country where the tax structure is less onerous.

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by whell

Fine. Then the company moves its operations to a country where the tax structure is less onerous.

That's where the guillotines, or my stake burning comes in.

[MrPots]

Originally Posted by Oerets

Tax that $hit too! If a company outsources make them pay for the workers they used then tossed away.



Barney

I'm of a mind of a special business tax assessed on businesses who pay their employees so little that those employees need food stamps and other safety net services. Those costs along with an administration penalty should be assessed on those businesses. I'd wager they start paying a living wage pretty damned fast.