House Democrats Introduce the AI Tax and Work Protection Act — a Tax on Large AI Firms Funding an FDR-Style 'Work Protection Administration'

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Reps. Greg Casar (D-TX), Valerie Foushee (D-NC), and Sara Jacobs (D-CA) introduced a bill on August 6 that would tax large AI companies to stand up a Work Protection Administration, explicitly modeled on FDR's Works Progress Administration, to create jobs offsetting AI-driven layoffs. Casar framed it as: 'We are not going to let AI company CEOs get rich by displacing millions of American workers.' It joins a crowded field of Democratic AI tax proposals — Sanders' 50%-of-stock sovereign wealth fund, Wyden's wage-security program, Warren's data-center energy tax — marking the first House bill to tie the revenue directly to a jobs program rather than a fund.