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Comment by Traster

4 days ago

Interesting. But if Sam really believes that the US public should share in the benefits of AI surely the number should be 50% not 5%.

What's your basis for conflating government ownership with public benefit?

Seems to me like it creates a lot of perverse incentives.

  • I agree, I think we should go back to the old system of letting them be fully private and just taxing their gains heavily to pay for the public debts/needs.

Why 50% and not 100%? The obvious answer is it creates strange incentives. Maybe something like 5% across the board for all large tech companies make sense?

  • Or instead, they could just continue the simple route of taxing companies via corporation tax and dividend tax without having to worry about ownership at all.