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One of Andrew Yang's proposal was to pay for a UBI with a 10% VAT, especially on services gained from automation, AI etc. Things that give companies a productivity boost, while also avoid taxes. So this would be a way to get the money back.

For example - currently a trucker driver will pay state tax, federal tax, pay taxes on the things they eat/buy. When a self driving truck comes...all of that above won't occur anymore. And the company saves money.

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>Things that give companies a productivity boost, while also avoid taxes.

Shovels, cars, tractors, computers, pens, paper etc? A truck driver can do the job of many cart drivers! And a cart driver can do the job of people who carry things with their own body.

Sure, all of those things created large economic gains for their respective economies. It's a question of how much of that economic gain can we capture with taxation.

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