{"id":223988,"date":"2026-06-01T18:46:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T22:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/texas-rep-casar-proposes-tax-on-ai-companies-to-fund-jobs-program\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T19:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T23:00:09","slug":"texas-rep-casar-proposes-tax-on-ai-companies-to-fund-jobs-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/texas-rep-casar-proposes-tax-on-ai-companies-to-fund-jobs-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Rep. Casar proposes tax on AI companies to fund jobs program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kvue.com\/article\/news\/local\/texas\/greg-casar-tax-ai-companies-create-job-program-combat-unemployment-texas\/269-5173f19a-ede8-412b-b82f-9460b3e3a598\">Texas Rep. Casar proposes tax on AI companies to fund jobs program<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kvue.com\/article\/news\/local\/texas\/greg-casar-tax-ai-companies-create-job-program-combat-unemployment-texas\/269-5173f19a-ede8-412b-b82f-9460b3e3a598\">https:\/\/www.kvue.com\/article\/news\/local\/texas\/greg-casar-tax-ai-companies-create-job-program-combat-unemployment-texas\/269-5173f19a-ede8-412b-b82f-9460b3e3a598<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-01 18:46:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.kvue.com\">www.kvue.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>U.S. Congressman Greg Casar proposes an AI tax-funded jobs program to counter AI&#8217;s potential for mass unemployment.<\/li>\n<li>This initiative aims to emulate the New Deal&#8217;s WPA by creating large-scale employment opportunities similar to the Hoover Dam or LaGuardia airport.<\/li>\n<li>The plan involves taxing the tokens used by AI models and directing the revenue into programs that create jobs to help workers affected by job losses due to AI.<\/li>\n<li>Casar\u2019s proposal includes adjustments to the AI tax rate to balance AI-induced job elimination with job creation, likening it to the Universal Service Fund that subsidizes telephones for low-income households.<\/li>\n<li>Critics like Paul Truax suggest that alongside job creation strategies, the pace of AI development is a concern, fearing &#8220;recursion&#8221; or AI self-improvement that could outpace human capability.<\/li>\n<li>The article highlights concerns about how the emerging AI wave disrupts traditional labor markets, particularly impacting new graduates facing rising unemployment rates.  <\/li>\n<li>Amidst these concerns, there is a call for flexible, adaptive legislative solutions to manage future job transitions driven by AI.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Rep. Casar proposes tax on AI companies to fund jobs program https:\/\/www.kvue.com\/article\/news\/local\/texas\/greg-casar-tax-ai-companies-create-job-program-combat-unemployment-texas\/269-5173f19a-ede8-412b-b82f-9460b3e3a598 Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":223989,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.kvue.com\/assets\/KVUE\/images\/0c5f06bc-897b-421d-813d-325e75994cc2\/20260601T221819\/0c5f06bc-897b-421d-813d-325e75994cc2_1140x641.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223988"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223990,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223988\/revisions\/223990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}