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Former First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund; Harvard economist
If AI leads to a transformation, where the labor share goes down by a lot more and the capital share goes up by a lot more, you can't run the kinds of programs you're running, in terms of entitlements, without having a higher capital income tax. It's just not viable.
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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 The quote clearly links an AI-driven decline in labor’s share and rise in capital’s share to the need for higher capital income taxes, implying support for shifting the tax base toward capital as human work becomes less central. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 17d ago
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AI Unverifiable The quote only conditionally says that if "the labor share goes down" and "the capital share goes up," then programs are not viable "without having a higher capital income tax." It does not clearly say governments should tax capital "not labor" or replace labor taxation. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 17d ago

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AI Verified The Harvard Gazette article dated March 23, 2026 contains the supplied passage verbatim as a direct quotation and attributes it to Gita Gopinath (“she said”). A Harvard FAS page for the same symposium also includes a longer transcript expressing the same statement, which further confirms the attribution. ([news.harvard.edu](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2026/03/economists-weigh-consequences-of-war-tariffs-ai/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 18d ago
AI Verified Verified. The Harvard Gazette source URL returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching, but a web search confirmed the exact quote verbatim from the March 2026 article "Economists weigh consequences of war, tariffs, AI": "if AI leads to a transformation, where the labor share goes down by a lot more and the capital share goes up by a lot more, you can't run the kinds of programs you're running, in terms of entitlements, without having a higher capital income tax," attributed to Gita Gopinath (former IMF First Deputy MD, Harvard economist). Year 2026 is current. Author attribution is correct. The vote "for" on the statement "Governments should tax capital, not labor, as AI makes human work less central to the economy" aligns correctly with the quote, which argues for higher capital income tax as AI shifts income from labor to capital. Source URL is the appropriate primary source. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 29d ago
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