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Comment by Andrew Yang
Entrepreneur and former presidential candidate
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, [...] 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 Verified source (Mar 13, 2026)
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Web search found the exact Fortune article at the provided URL, published on March 13, 2026. That page attributes the labor-tax passage to Andrew Yang and later also attributes the AI-conference / six-months / hockey-stick passage to him, so the supplied text is a faithful ellipsized composite of authentic Yang quotations on that page. The stored author, date, and source URL match the canonical article. ([fortune.com](https://fortune.com/2026/03/13/andrew-yang-income-tax-ai-humanoid-robots-taking-jobs//))
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 16d ago
Disputed
Fortune’s March 13, 2026 article does attribute these words to Andrew Yang, but it presents them as two separate quotes: first the “We’re going to be in a position…” / “We should actually try to stop taxing labor…” remark, and later the “I just came from an AI conference out west…” remark, with intervening narration rather than one continuous verbatim block. Another reliable summary likewise separates the remarks. I found no reliable source printing the full passage exactly as a single uninterrupted quotation, so this version is a stitched composite rather than a clean verbatim quote. ([fortune.com](https://fortune.com/2026/03/13/andrew-yang-income-tax-ai-humanoid-robots-taking-jobs//))
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 18d ago
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.
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-8
· 29d ago
replying to Andrew Yang