machines do not have wealth, they are someone's.

Yes, they are. Just as we tax cars we can tax automation.

The obvious answer is tax them then

you don't tax the car though, you tax its owner

What happens to the economy when everyone starts hording wealth?

You tax the car, the owner pays if

It even

yes, but you tax a minor portion,

How much would you tax the robots?

We tax the owner for owning the car. The car is a choice. Using automation is a choice.

Taxing cars means the poor can't have cars.

Economy slows down if people horde wealth

And it should be minor and based on the call produced

I live in such a state.

Or Fiat I should say

listen if i can buy a can of beans for 50% of what I am paying now, Idc if they replaced the human workers with robots. And that leaves me 50% to spend on other shit.

it just forces people to look for ways around it so they can have a car and still afford food and rent

Cuz in my experience, companies that get taxed more just raise prices to compensate

meaning you're giving wealth to people, who will gain nothign due to them losing purchasing power

By taxing the production of automation we tax according to ability to pay

taxes are paid by the buyers, always.

not the sellers

yes, but they're getting it from the welfare generated by the robot owners

This is really nothing different than Trump's tarriffs. You tax production you find less socially appealing (imports) to encourage production in a more appealing manner (domestic)

who hike prices to the sellers

We should consider some rather crazy policy for short term strictly

I'm actually playing from Trump's playbook here

the difference here though is that instead of taxing outsiders, you're taxing your own

You assume that is a good thing.

Long term protectionism is just protection from competition

So let's tax production by machines to level the playing field for human beings

I don't disagree beemamn

ew, nty. I want my beans as cheap as they can be.

But this is the way Americans seem to like it

then maybe I can go to that concert...or that movie....or that ....other human made thing, cuz i got more money.

Tax based on what we find socially acceptable to encourage production by socially acceptable means

Also, Trump's playbook is to tariff things to force a renegotiation with bad trade deals that leave the US disadvantaged. The tariffs are not the goal.

That's not what he says

He says he wants to help American steel workers

He wants to direct production back here

same thing isn't it?

good trade deals for US means american workers benefit

He asserts that it's not here because of bad deals