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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (89)	9/6/2006 12:19:33 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10087

In the meantime, why not make the employer pay his share of the SS tax on each non-taxpaying robot he uses to replace 5 or 6 tax paying workers? What's that; 6.5% or something? Let them calculate it at minimum wage, even. That seems like a rather odd and bad idea. The government shouldn't be in the business of taxing capital investment and productivity increases. Also even if you want them to be in that business, productivity increases come from many things besides robots. Are you going to put special taxes in place for more efficient machinery, better computer programs, better inventory management, process streamlining etc.? All in all it would be a very bad idea even if our country represented our the total economy of the world or was insulated from competition. Since American companies do have to compete with other nations, taxing investments that lead to higher productivity would be an even worse idea. Instead of having 20 American manual workers replaced with a machine and 2 American workers, you get the 20 Americans replaced with 30 workers overseas.