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Ro Khanna: “Nobel laureate Doraine Smoglu estimates that companies pay…”

Featuring: Ro Khanna, Democratic | U.S. House California, 17th Congressional District

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Third, We need to fix the tax code's anti human bias. The reality is that you get accelerated depreciation when you hire when you use technology. But human beings come with a tax. Nobel laureate Doraine Smoglu estimates that companies pay zero tax when they have digital tools, AI agents or automation in their companies, but pay almost 30% in taxes between employers and employees when they hire workers. This makes no sense. We need to make it easier to hire human beings instead of AI agents. (35:04–35:20)

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Asserts that companies pay zero tax with AI tools but almost 30% with human workers.

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