Tax the energy. Not the workers.

The UK raises £534 billion a year from taxing wages. Automation is destroying those jobs. SEBE taxes the physical infrastructure of automation (electricity consumption and cross-border data) instead of the workers being replaced.

£34–46 billion at launch · Growing every year machines replace workers
Jason Huxley. Infrastructure and automation engineer, 30+ years. Former Royal Signals. Green Party member. This proposal is open source, published under CC-BY 4.0, and seeking economic scrutiny.

Revenue trajectory

£38B
2030 launch
£57B
2035
£93B
2040
£159B
2045

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