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Bill Gates wants to tax robots, and it’s the same tired song from the far-left socialist crowd: if it moves, tax it; if it doesn’t, write a law to make it move so you can tax it later. This is peak Democrat thinking—government’s answer to everything is reaching deeper into our wallets. Robots aren’t the problem; they’re just the latest excuse for bigger bureaucracies to grow fatter. Why stop at robots? Let’s tax drills, saws, trucks, tractors—heck, why not tax every kid in a big farm family that keeps small farms alive? Those kids work hard, just like a robot, so where’s the difference in this warped logic? The idea’s defenders might say robots are special—fancy tech stealing jobs, so we need cash to retrain people. Nice try. A tractor’s been “stealing” manual labor jobs since the 1800s, and we didn’t tax it—we adapted. A drill multiplies what one worker can do; we don’t slap a fee on that either. Productivity’s the backbone of progress, not a piggy bank for politicians. Gates’ plan just punishes innovation while pretending to save us. If jobs vanish, let’s talk real solutions—education, incentives—not another government handout scheme funded by taxing anything that works smarter. This isn’t about robots; it’s about control. Every new tax is a tighter grip on our freedom, and I’m not buying the line that more government is the fix. It never has been. Show me a problem solved by higher taxes that didn’t create three worse ones. I’ll wait.

viking_aging's tweet photo. Bill Gates wants to tax robots, and it’s the same tired song from the far-left socialist crowd: if it moves, tax it; if it doesn’t, write a law to make it move so you can tax it later. This is peak Democrat thinking—government’s answer to everything is reaching deeper into our wallets. Robots aren’t the problem; they’re just the latest excuse for bigger bureaucracies to grow fatter. Why stop at robots? Let’s tax drills, saws, trucks, tractors—heck, why not tax every kid in a big farm family that keeps small farms alive? Those kids work hard, just like a robot, so where’s the difference in this warped logic?

The idea’s defenders might say robots are special—fancy tech stealing jobs, so we need cash to retrain people. Nice try. A tractor’s been “stealing” manual labor jobs since the 1800s, and we didn’t tax it—we adapted. A drill multiplies what one worker can do; we don’t slap a fee on that either. Productivity’s the backbone of progress, not a piggy bank for politicians. Gates’ plan just punishes innovation while pretending to save us. If jobs vanish, let’s talk real solutions—education, incentives—not another government handout scheme funded by taxing anything that works smarter.

This isn’t about robots; it’s about control. Every new tax is a tighter grip on our freedom, and I’m not buying the line that more government is the fix. It never has been. Show me a problem solved by higher taxes that didn’t create three worse ones. I’ll wait.

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