Taxing Bots: Bringing Law to the Lawless Machine Crow
By James Quillian – Economist, Political Analyst, Teacher of Natural Law
First: Bots are not free. They are cheap for their owners and expensive for everyone else.
Second: The damage bots do is a classic negative externality – the costs are pushed onto society.
Third: Those who could control bots choose not to, because they profit from their lawless existence.
Fourth: The natural-law remedy is simple: tax bots at the points where they touch the system.
Fifth: Even “good” bots create externalities; they should carry their own weight instead of shifting the burden to their victims