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Douglas Elmendorf
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Economist and professor at Harvard Kennedy School; former Director of the U.S. Congressional Budget Office.
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Governments should tax capital, not labor, as AI makes human work less central to the economy
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Douglas Elmendorf
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There’s a reasonable case that with the rise in AI, it’s more important to protect labor demand than to encourage more capital investment, and therefore capital taxes could be higher.
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