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One approach gaining support is to slow the displacement of workers with new taxes on AI services and investments. [...] The challenge these proposals aim to address is real — but trying to hold back the tide is the wrong answer.
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AI Verified Verified: the cited Bloomberg Opinion page contains these exact words, and the official byline is "By The Editorial Board." Bloomberg’s author page identifies that byline as the "Bloomberg Opinion Editorial Board," i.e., the collective opinion editors. Your bracketed [...] is not in the original text—the two sentences run consecutively—but the quoted wording itself is authentic. ([bloomberg.com](https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-04-29/taxing-artificial-intelligence-would-hurt-innovation-and-prosperity?srnd=undefined)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 11d ago
AI Unverifiable Quote: "One approach gaining support is to slow the displacement of workers with new taxes on AI services and investments. [...] The challenge these proposals aim to address is real — but trying to hold back the tide is the wrong answer." Attributed to Bloomberg Opinion Editors (2026), against statement #436 ("Governments should tax capital, not labor..."). Checks performed: (1) Year 2026 — recent, OK. (2) Vote alignment — the quote argues taxing AI is "the wrong answer," so an "against" vote on the pro-AI-tax statement is correct. (3) Source — the Bloomberg URL (bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-04-29/taxing-artificial-intelligence-would-hurt-innovation-and-prosperity) and its syndicated copies (Advisor Perspectives, West Hawaii Today) all return HTTP 403 Forbidden, so I could not directly fetch the page to confirm the exact wording. Web search corroborates that the article exists (Bloomberg editorial board, published 2026-04-29, anti-AI-tax thesis matching this quote), but because the primary source is paywalled/blocked to automated access I cannot positively confirm the verbatim text. Marking ai_unverifiable per protocol for blocked sources. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 21d ago
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