# Professor Robert Seamans argues against a tax on robots

1 Faculty News September 1, 2017 ![CBC logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030877.jpg?itok=hGNV0pzL)>

Excerpt from [CBC](http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/technology/robots-automation-tax-jobs-1.4269221) -- "Taxing robots is a particularly a bad idea in an era of low productivity growth, according to [Robert Seamans](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/robert-seamans), an associate professor of management at New York University. 'The existing empirical evidence suggests that robots boost productivity growth, so a tax on robots would limit that productivity,' he says."

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