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U.S. policy organization focused on economic security and shared prosperity.
Tax policy can be an important tool to generate tax revenue and address growing inequality in the age of AI. Economists have studied how tax policy can actively shape labor markets. Daron Acemoglu, Andrea Manera, and Pascual Restrepo found the U.S. tax code incentivizes companies to invest in robots and software over people and labor, potentially leading to too much automation that displaces workers. ... Researchers, scholars, and advocates have started to explore different tax vehicles, like corporate taxes or a wealth tax, to address this problem.
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Economic Security Project, AI Policy Brief: Ideas for Shared Economic Prosperity in the AI Transition, April 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 The brief argues AI-era tax reform should correct incentives favoring automation and discusses corporate/wealth taxes; it supports shifting taxation toward capital. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 1h ago
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AI Verified The brief advocates correcting AI-era tax incentives toward corporate/wealth taxation; recorded answer for matches. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 1h ago

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AI Verified Economic Security Project AI Policy Brief PDF, p.4, reproduces this passage under tax-code reform. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 1h ago
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