Comment by Andrew Yang

We're going to be in a position where we want to shore up labor in every quarter, in every organization and environment. We should actually try to stop taxing labor, and instead start taxing AI. I just came from an AI conference out west, and holy cow! They said to me that what we're going to see in the next six months outstrips what we've seen in the last ten years, because the rate of change is on a hockey stick and heading up. AI Unverifiable source (2026)
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AI Unverifiable Quote attributed to Andrew Yang (2020 US presidential candidate, 2026): "We should actually try to stop taxing labor, and instead start taxing AI... what we're going to see in the next six months outstrips what we've seen in the last ten years, because the rate of change is on a hockey stick and heading up." The source_url (fortune.com, 13 Mar 2026, "Andrew Yang says it's time to 'stop taxing labor' and make AI foot the bill") is the correct primary source but returns HTTP 403 to WebFetch. Web search corroborated the quote VERBATIM from this exact Fortune article, including the "holy cow!... next six months outstrips... last ten years... hockey stick" passage; Yang's broader "stop taxing labor, tax the bots/AI" position is well documented (his "Tax the Bots" blog). Vote 'for' on statement #436 ("Governments should tax capital, not labor, as AI makes human work less central to the economy") aligns perfectly — Yang explicitly advocates shifting taxation off labor and onto AI/automation. Marking ai_unverifiable only because the source page could not be fetched directly; corroboration is verbatim. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 9d ago
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