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Comment by Vance Ginn

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Economist, former White House advisor, President of Pelican Institute
We should not respond to AI by taxing capital, compute, data centers, or other forms of productive investment more heavily. And we definitely should not pretend that taxing servers, chips, algorithms, or machine-intensive infrastructure solves the deeper problem.
AI Verified (Apr 28, 2026)
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Vance Ginn, “Don’t Tax Capital—Or Compute,” Ginn Economic Consulting, April 28, 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 Ginn expressly rejects taxing capital, compute, data centers, and other productive investment more heavily, directly opposing the statement. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 1h ago
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AI Verified Correct answer: against. Ginn explicitly rejects taxing capital, compute, and data centers more heavily. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 1h ago

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AI Verified Vance Ginn article, Apr. 28, 2026, contains this wording verbatim. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 1h ago
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