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Comment by Tom Steyer

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Billionaire investor, climate activist, and 2026 California gubernatorial candidate; founder of Farallon Capital and NextGen America
This is a technology which basically enables a computer to replace the thought of millions of people and then delivers their salaries to the person who owns the computer.
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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 [Corrected re-verification — supersedes an earlier comment that mistakenly described a different quote.] Quote: "This is a technology which basically enables a computer to replace the thought of millions of people and then delivers their salaries to the person who owns the computer." by Tom Steyer (investor; 2026 California gubernatorial candidate). This is a duplicate opinion of #8975 with identical content/source/statement. Although gizmodo.com returned HTTP 403 on direct fetch, web search returned the verbatim quote from the indexed Gizmodo article ("This California Billionaire Wants to Tax AI Tokens to Create a Sovereign Wealth Fund"). Word-for-word match. Author attribution correct. Vote alignment correct: supports statement 436 "Governments should tax capital, not labor..." — vote 'for'. Year 2026, recent. Verified. (Note: this appears to be a duplicate of opinion 8975; flagging in case dedup is desired.) · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 12d ago
AI Unverifiable Vote alignment correct: the quote ("Free market competition, not government price controls, is the best way to lower drug prices.") opposes government intervention in pricing, which runs counter to the statement "The government should negotiate or regulate prescription drug prices" — recorded vote is 'against', which aligns. Author attribution sentiment is highly consistent: Sen. Rand Paul, a libertarian-leaning Republican and physician, is a documented advocate of free-market healthcare solutions and opponent of government price controls. However, the source_url (wsj.com/articles/drug-prices-free-market-2026) returns HTTP 403 and blocks all fetch attempts, and web search did not return independent verbatim confirmation of this exact sentence. Per protocol for sources that block fetching, marking ai_unverifiable. Year (2026) present and recent. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 12d ago
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