Dear Editor:

Greens and NDP are promoting a robot tax.  However, if a company needs to cut costs by automating in order to survive, a robot tax could be counter productive.  Rather than have a robot tax, It might be more positive to have a tax rate adjusted for a business's “hired labour” percentage of sales.  Highly automated businesses then would pay a higher tax rate than a business that was more labour intensive.  This method would also be simpler to apply.

Bill Moses
Owen Sound