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Comment by Zak Kidd

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Founder of AskHumans and proponent of a task tax on automation that replaces human work.
What we want to do is actually levy a tax on each of those activities that’s paid back to the state to replace that fiscal gap.
AI Verified (Mar 13, 2026)
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Zak Kidd, quoted in Jake Angelo, “Ex-presidential candidate Andrew Yang says it’s time to ‘stop taxing labor’ and make AI foot the bill instead,” Fortune, March 13, 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 Kidd advocates taxing robot-replaced tasks to replace revenue lost when human labor is displaced, supporting shifting taxation away from labor. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 1h ago
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AI Verified Correct answer: for. Kidd favors taxing robot-replaced work rather than relying on labor taxes. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 1h ago

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AI Verified Fortune, Mar. 13, 2026, prints this wording and attributes it to Zak Kidd. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 1h ago
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