Should Robots Pay Social Security Taxes?

[thomhartmann]

Automation: Meet your new coworker, they don't eat, sleep, or pay social security taxes, but maybe they should?

Automation is about to cause a crisis in the work force by displacing American workers with highly skilled, fully functional robots...

Currently taxes favor employers who use machines where people once worked, could putting a tax on those machines be a way to fund social security and medicare in our increasing automated work place?

Bill Gates thinks there should be an automation tax. Find out what Congressmember Ro Khanna and Thom Hartmann think about automated economy,

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. Are they getting paychecks?

If they are they'd be subject to FICA. If not, no.

[TDale313]

2. No, but taxes could be levied on companies that use them

Maybe it wouldn’t go directly into the current Social Security program, but taxing robot labor makes a lot of sense.

[LonePirate]

3. Absolutely! An automation tax needs its own section in our 2020 presidential platform.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

4. Exactly. Suggesting they pay Social Security is dumb.

It's as if Hartmann hasn't a clue how Social Security works, which isn't true.