Andrew Yang on Governments should tax capital, not lab…

Andrew Yang

2020 US Presidential Candidate

It’s time for the U.S. to drop taxes on labor, in favor of taxes on AI.

AI Verified (Mar 13, 2026)

Source:

Andrew Yang, quoted in “Andrew Yang says it's time to ‘stop taxing labor’ and make AI foot the bill instead,” Fortune, March 13, 2026.

2mo ago

Policy proposals and claims

Governments should tax capital, not labor, as AI makes human work less central to the economy

votes For

Statement relation verification history AI Verified Report this

AI Verified Yang explicitly favors replacing labor taxes with taxes on AI, directly supporting the stated tax shift. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago

Vote inference verification history AI Verified Report this

AI Verified Recorded for: Yang explicitly favors AI taxes over labor taxes. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago

Quote authenticity verification history

Report this

AI Verified Verified by Fortune reporting of Yang’s CNBC remarks (Mar. 13, 2026). · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago

replying to Andrew Yang

Other opinions from Andrew Yang

See all

Andrew Yang votes For

AI will create a permanent underclass

In essence, the number of people necessary to make large corporations function is going to be dramatically reduced.

AI Verified source (Feb 18, 2026)

added 1mo ago

Andrew Yang votes For

Introduce a universal basic wealth system that grants individuals a capital endowment at birth

My design was to raise the alarm around AI and mainstream universal basic income.

AI Verified source (Feb 5, 2026)

added 1mo ago

Andrew Yang votes For

A nation should fund a citizens' dividend from AI windfall profits

“My design was to raise the alarm around AI and mainstream universal basic income.”

AI Verified source (Feb 5, 2026)

added 2mo ago

Other authors to follow

OpenAI AI research organization

Dario Amodei CEO at Anthropic

Anthropic AI safety research company

Yoshua Bengio AI Pioneer, Turing Award winner

Sam Altman CEO at OpenAI

Demis Hassabis Nobel laureate, AI Researcher and CEO of DeepMind

António Guterres UN Secretary-General

Bernie Sanders U.S. Senator from Vermont

Geoffrey Hinton Godfather of Deep Learning

Comment by Andrew Yang

Policy proposals and claims

Statement relation comments

Vote answer comments

Quote authenticity verification history

Quote authenticity comments

Other opinions from Andrew Yang

Other authors to follow