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U.S. Senator from Vermont
Robots don't need a wage, health care, time off, sick leave, Social Security, Medicare or unemployment benefits. The same handful of oligarchs who have rigged our economy for decades are now moving as fast as they can to replace human workers with what they call 'artificial labor.' If we do not act, the result could be economic devastation for working people across this country. Congress must ensure that AI and automation benefit workers, not just corporate CEOs and Wall Street. AI Unverifiable source (2025)
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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 Unverifiable Quote attributed to Sen. Bernie Sanders (2025) that robots don't need wages/health care/Social Security etc., that "the same handful of oligarchs who have rigged our economy for decades" are racing to replace human workers with "artificial labor," warning of economic devastation, and that "Congress must ensure that AI and automation benefit workers, not just corporate CEOs and Wall Street." The source_url (sanders.senate.gov press release on his "Big Tech Oligarchs' War Against Workers" report, Oct 2025) is the correct primary source but returns HTTP 403 to WebFetch. Web search strongly corroborated: the report (released Oct 6/9 2025, warning AI could eliminate ~100M US jobs) quotes Sanders near-verbatim on oligarchs "moving as fast as they can to replace human workers with what they call 'artificial labor'" and the robots-don't-need-wages framing. Year 2025 is recent (today is June 2026). Vote 'for' on statement #436 ("Governments should tax capital, not labor, as AI makes human work less central to the economy") aligns well — the report explicitly proposes a "robot tax" on corporations that replace workers with machines, i.e., taxing automation/capital rather than labor. Marking ai_unverifiable only because the source page could not be fetched directly; corroboration is strong. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 9d ago
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