"TAX THE ROBOTS !! @~<a href=""https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50r-5ULcWgY&amp;t=1h14m20s"">1:14:20</a> the notion to tax as a reaction to the looming automation explosion is finally being discussed openly. Now", if you will kindly allow, consider what to tax.  M. Rees suggests a tax on the corporation. Okay, perhaps this could be workable. However, posit a tax on the robot itself.  Tax the hours of robot operation, or tax the units of production. Actual experience and some thought will determine whether to tax, the units produced vs hours of operation vs value added, et cetera. Nonetheless, the tax will necessarily have to be high.  I know, there are many. many slippery ways to wiggle out of this.  However, use taxing the work product of the robot as a guiding principle.<br><br>Then there is the issue, the huge issue, of redistributing the tax to displaced persons (well, if this is what we want to do.) This redistribution<br>may also be best automated and not have the tax revenue go into the general fund.  But, of this we can unfortunately be sure, there will be fraud. Anywho, TAX THE ROBOTS !! TAX THE ROBOTS !!