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Comment by Xavier de Souza Briggs

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Senior Fellow at Brookings Metro, researching economic mobility, cities, and AI's workforce impacts.
Reforming the tax code to put the value of labor for business on a more level playing field with that of invested capital [is] an additional lever for “building pro-worker AI.”
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Xavier de Souza Briggs, “Getting to all-of-the-above: A framework of solutions for AI’s coming impacts on work and workers,” Brookings, June 29, 2026.
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Governments should tax capital, not labor, as AI makes human work less central to the economy
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AI Verified Briggs advocates tax reform to level business incentives for labor and invested capital as a pro-worker AI policy; directly relevant to taxing capital rather than labor. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 1h ago
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AI Verified Correct answer: for. Briggs advocates leveling tax treatment of labor and invested capital to build pro-worker AI; recorded for matches. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 1h ago

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AI Verified Brookings (29 Jun 2026) by Xavier de Souza Briggs contains the stored wording on leveling labor and invested capital; metadata matches. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 1h ago
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