A First-Principles Model for Replacing Income Tax in an AI-Driven Economy
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I’ve been working on a different approach: a usage-based tax architecture that measures economic footprint instead of income. It keeps essentials inexpensive, removes loopholes, captures automation/AI usage, and creates a built-in stabilizer and debt-control system.
This is not a political argument — it’s a design proposal. I’m sharing it here because HN tends to have the deepest discussions around systems, constraints, and incentive design. https://github.com/publicusagetax/PUT-Monolith-v2