globalists have not met a tax they do not like...

The curse of the RINOs.

Reminds me of the old joke about robots.

A Guy goes into a bar where all the bartenders are robots:
The guy sits down at the bar and the robot asks: “What will you have?
The guy replies, “Whiskey.” The robot brings back his drink and asks, “What’s your IQ?”
The guy say, “168”
The robot talks about physics, string theory and space exploration.
After the guy leaves, he pauses at the street corner and thinks about what he just encountered, and decides to go back.
The robot asks, “What’s your drink?”
The guy answers, “Whiskey.”
The robot serves the drink and asks, “What’s your IQ?”
This time the man replies, “100.”
The robot talks about Budweiser, and football.
The guy finishes his drink, leaves, but decides he'll try again.
The guy enters the bar and the robot asks him what he wants to drink.
The guy replies, “Whiskey.”
The robot serves the drink and asks, “What’s your IQ?”
This time the guy answers, “50.”
The robot leans in real close and slowly asks: “So, are you people still unhappy Hillary lost?”

Alzheimer's?

actually a fair amount of them on both sides of the political spectrum

I have thought for a while now that there would be a per hour of use tax on robots that was the same as the wages that they "displaced". It will usher in a whole new bureaucracy to just define and figure the taxes. Kind of like the custom duty fiasco.

The real issue is what IS a robot, and if the existing ones are grandfathered in.

We are surrounded by "robots"- elevators are robots really. How about those fast food soda machines we use every day. Most foods are made using automation, which is a form of robot technology. Your car is run by multiple automated robots to control combustion in the engine, help you steer and brake. What about the automatic tuners in your radio and TV- more robot technology.

I didn't expect this kind of addled thinking from one of the "culprits" who fostered the computer revolution that is leading to highly capable robots. It reminds me of the automobile-resistant politicians who made laws restricting car speeds to walking speed, requiring someone walk in front of the infernal machine carrying a red lantern.

He better hope we don't adopt a stupid tax. Why do people think like this?

Kakistocrats like Gates are sooo interested in assisting the elderly and children. Bill Oren Boyle Gates .

Lots of science fiction speculation to research; I agree that capitalism hasn't had to deal with it but there will come a time.

So how much should Microsoft be taxed for spell and grammar check? Taxing robots generates a definition problem.

As I have said many times, I do think that the day will come when a robot based economy can make all the goods and services that we need for everyone to have at least a "middle class" living with less than 5% of the people working.

When that happens we will have to have something like a universal income so that the 95% can actually buy the stuff instead of it piling up in warehouses while people starve in the streets.

Where the money comes from to pay that is an interesting question.

Degrees if stupidity. Until such time a machine or computer is sentient and can exercise its free will it is nothing more than a tool, a possession to be used for its intended purpose. Gates....(face palm)

Then why would a factory use robots if they have to pay taxes for them?
Didn't the parasitical humanoids get enough sales taxes for every itty bitty part and the sales taxes on the finished product...not to mention Taxes on the company by the town/ city as property/machinery!?!?!?

Gates is a mad man.

LOL!

And ride your horse to work to help saddle and bridle and horse-shoe makers. ;^)

So Gates thinks like a Democrat politician.

Yes!
I foresee some effort on narrowing the legal definition of 'robot'.
Jobs for lawyers.

Reminds me of the story when Milton Friedman visited a site where the workers were
using shovels instead of machines. He was told that shovel use created more jobs.
He replied- Why not use spoons?

Gates fails to mention that more taxes will result from higher profits of the company with fewer employees to pay.