Jeremy Bearer-Friend
@bearerfriend
Associate Professor of Law at GW 🌈 I write on tax, race, and democracy:
Billionaire-owned news outlets like @washingtonpost.com & @opinion.bloomberg.com keep running op-Ed’s about our proposal to tax AI. Here are 2 just in the last 24 hours! Why dedicate so much space to a wonky AI tax paid with stock not cash? Because they know it’s popular and they’re scared.
And now maybe California can be the one to enact the AI equity tax…
And now Newsom on board, too. Left, Right, and Center all pushing for a public AI equity fund.
Yes! And not even Smaug is happy despite all his hoarded gold
Save the date! Jan 15. 1 hour webinar covering 2 years of empirical research on how to message about reparations!
Day 2 of @penncareylaw.bsky.social symposium on multiracial democracy. I asked the room: “what is the role of a law professor in a burning house?” And I got lots of good answers! Post yours? Ps Here I am with GW Law colleague Prof Tania Valdez who had brilliant comments. Friends give me strength!
Views from jog this morning before class. If you get the chance to teach at Deep Springs College, take it!
I presented my poll tax research at my former law firm today. All of the work was historical but it raised a very contemporary question: are there taxes today that target harm on vulnerable groups? Tax lawyers are the ones who best know the Internal Revenue Code and it is up to us to answer this Q.
Good summary from @washingtonpost.com on @harvard.edu including top notch counsel from @smbrnsn.bsky.social
Yes, this wooded lake with a Scottish mountain range behind it is actually a law school campus. Thank you University of Stirling for having me out! Was a blast to present my research on the corporate governance lessons of OpenAI board scandal. Ps I didn’t take a picture of the swans. It was too much
‘Corrupt government suspends enforcement of corruption laws’
This is illegal, indeed criminal. We might not be able to prosecute Musk, but we can fire him. He’s done.
Giving this brilliant book a reread before my talk at @columbiauniversity.bsky.social law school next month…
Congratulations to Ellen Aprill and Beverly Moran on their Lifetime Achievement Awards from the AALS Tax Section. You two make us proud to be tax profs! #AALS
Are these rations included in the shrinkflation statistics?
Credit where credit is due. Good choice, Tax Notes! #TaxSky
Holiday reading just arrived! Cant want to dive into this new book by @profbcrawford.bsky.social @linniss.bsky.social . Anyone up for a book club?