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Sara Jacobs

U.S. Representative from California's 51st congressional district

Corporations are already laying off workers and raking in the profits from AI systems trained on human work – without ensuring workers share in those gains. That's why Congress needs to act now by preparing the economy for AI, creating guardrails so it augments workers instead of replacing them, and strengthening the social safety net. The AI Tax and Work Protection Act will tax certain uses of AI, especially when they lead to job cuts, and it will help create jobs for workers who may be left behind by the AI transition. If AI profits off human work, workers deserve job security and a share of those profits.

AI Verified (Aug 7, 2026)

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Sara Jacobs, statement in “NEWS: Casar Leads Introduction of New Bill To Protect Workers From Threat of AI Mass Unemployment,” Office of Rep. Greg Casar, August 7, 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 Jacobs explicitly backs taxing AI uses that cut jobs so workers share AI-derived gains; this directly supports shifting tax burden toward capital. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 19d ago

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AI Verified Jacobs backs an AI tax, particularly for job-cutting uses, to distribute AI gains to workers; recorded answer for is correct. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 19d ago

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AI Verified Rep. Casar’s Aug. 7 release explicitly attributes this exact AI-tax and worker-protection statement to Sara Jacobs. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 19d ago

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