alt Hacker News>Pretty sure farmers don't buy them tax free? [...], but they still foot the rest of the tax burden.
To clarify, this isn't about the farmer paying a "sales tax" or VAT as % of the price of buying the tractor.
The article is talking about something else: paying additional machine taxes to cover the loss of unemployed crop workers that would have been paying individual income taxes.
Oh I get it, but I do find it silly, because that only means that the company running the models pay more in taxes for providing you with a service, which is weird to me. Especially if they keep costs down on goods and services, allowing us to focus on quality of output more. At least that's what Claude Code has done for my side projects.