Associate Professor of Law at GW 🌈
I write on tax, race, and democracy:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1538104
Jeremy Bearer-Friend
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NYT headline when the economy added 266,000 jobs under Biden vs. NYT headline when BLS says the economy added 172,000 jobs under Trump.
With its recent rulings, the Roberts Court has now entirely perverted the purpose of the 15th Amendment, turning an outright ban on racial discrimination in voting into a right to discriminate against black voters. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Reminder that, if Thomas Paine’s tax proposal were in effect, Musk would face a 100 percent tax rate on any annual gains above $1 billion.
Full detailed in my paper with @vanessawilliamson.bsky.social
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
people who work and invest in AI frequently ask me why their work polls so badly
Alabama gambled on the Court’s partisanship, and won.
www.theatlantic.com
Great coverage of AI Tax options, leading with @sanders.senate.gov' plan for an AI Equity Tax to make the public co-owners of AI, based on the "Sharing the Algorithm" Columbia Journal of Tax Law article I wrote with @bearerfriend.bsky.social
nytimes.com/2026/06/13/b...
Jeremy Bearer-Friend
Adam Serwer
Thomas Paine’s writing helped spur the American colonies to independence and ensure that the new nation would be a republic, not a monarchy. In light of the ren
This effort to coopt Bernie’s AI tax is corruption, not taxation.
A fundamental characteristic of a tax is its OBLIGATORY nature.
But the the Altman & Trump version is that the stock contribution would be VOLUNTARY, ensuring some type of quid pro quo arrangement.
apnews.com/article/sam-...
Good digest of our recent AI tax work if want to see all one place
taxprofblog.aals.org/2026/06/09/b...
I'm not just a tax professor. I also play one on TV.
youtu.be/2mDEqasSUvI
BREAKING: in May 2026, *every single one* of the 599 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans.
In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,665 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else.
For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.
New: we've obtained a DHS document outlining ICE's plan to give potentially more than a thousand local law enforcement agencies a facial recognition app that would query a database of hundreds of millions of images to verify someone’s immigration status
www.404media.co/ices-plan-to...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has met with Sen. Bernie Sanders to discuss public ownership in AI companies — a meeting that highlighted the tension between AI powerhouses and policymakers.
Jeremy Bearer-Friend (GW) and Sarah Polcz’s (UC Davis) proposal for taxing generative Ai has received some recent and notable attention. In a recent New York Times op-ed, Bernie Sanders referenced it ...
