Too Long; Didn't Read
I don’t often claim to know better than modern-day genius Bill Gates, but as a <a href="https://goo.gl/GX0Df3" target="_blank">student</a> of both accounting and <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/economics" target="_blank">economics</a> with a masters in taxation, when I heard that <a href="https://qz.com/911968/bill-gates-the-robot-that-takes-your-job-should-pay-taxes/" target="_blank">Gates had proposed </a>taxing robots in order to protect workers who might be displaced by automation, I immediately knew that would be a bad idea. The idea is cute, really. Robots take our jobs, so why don’t they take our taxes? The answer, like a lot in the world tax, lies in the weeds.