Comment by Carter C. Price

Senior mathematician and professor of policy analysis at RAND.
Artificial intelligence (AI)–driven automation threatens to shift income from labor to capital at precisely the moment when two-thirds of federal tax revenue depends on labor income. The tax code compounds this risk by taxing capital income at preferential rates and penalizing employment through employer-side payroll taxes. [...] Replace payroll taxes with business income taxes: Payroll taxes on employers reduce employer demand for labor.
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Disputed RAND’s source credits Carter C. Price and Jeffrey B. Wenger jointly (page lines 61–63); this multi-author report cannot verify the quote as Carter C. Price alone. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 20d ago
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