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U.S. Senator from Arizona; former NASA astronaut; author of AI for America roadmap
The idea is to make this worker centric; we have to focus on people. [...] It can't be on rate payers, homeowners, and small businesses to pay for the infrastructure for a big business that ultimately is going to be making billions of dollars on this technology. AI Verified source (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 Quote by Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ), 2026. The source_url (MeriTalk) returned HTTP 403 to direct fetch, but web search confirmed the quote verbatim: "The idea is to make this worker centric; we have to focus on people" and "It can't be on rate payers, homeowners, and small businesses to pay for the infrastructure for a big business that ultimately is going to be making billions of dollars on this technology." Context: Kelly's "AI for America" roadmap and proposed AI Horizon Fund requiring AI companies that profit to fund infrastructure/societal adjustment. Author attribution correct (US Senator from AZ, former astronaut, AI for America author). Year 2026 current. Vote "for" on statement 436 ("Governments should tax capital, not labor, as AI makes human work less central to the economy") is directionally aligned — Kelly explicitly argues the fiscal burden of AI buildout should fall on the big businesses/capital reaping billions, not on ordinary workers/ratepayers, and frames his approach as worker-centric. Note: the quote concerns cost allocation for AI infrastructure rather than a strict capital-vs-labor tax reform, but it reflects the statement's underlying principle and the "for" direction is correct. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 9d ago
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