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  "description": "Fox News contributor also spoke on Thomas Paine’s life and legacy",
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  "textContent": "WASHINGTON, June 5, 2026 — Constitutional law scholar **Jonathan Turley** says he fears subsidized industries and socialist policies more than artificial intelligence.\n\nIn remarks at the Free State Foundation’s 20th anniversary celebration, Turley raised fears of job losses posed by automation and large language models, which he said could “dwarf” the Great Depression and create people who are “unemployable.”\n\nSee Breakfast Club Membership Options!\n\n\n                            See Breakfast Club Membership Options\n                        \n\n“We’re gonna have fewer taxi drivers. We’re gonna have fewer radiologists. That’s a fact,” Turley said Thursday.\n\nHe disagreed with Sen. **Elizabeth Warren** , D-Mass., and her proposal to levy a wealth tax on AI companies, calling it “performance art\" and “uniquely dumb.”\n\n“We’ve never been able to subsidize changes in the market,” Turley said. “So, we burn billions so that politicians can get elected.”\n\nTurley proposed creating “ _homo_ -centric” jobs, although he did not specify what those might be.\n\n\"I'm concerned about the billions we're going to spend on dying industries\" like Obama-era solar-powered startups, Turley told BroadbandBreakfast after his remarks.\n\nTurley also spoke on the life and legacy of American Revolutionary writer **Thomas Paine** , author of _Common Sense_ in 1776. Paine, Turley said, personified the American spirit.\n\n“[Paine] came here to reinvent himself,” Turley said. “He came to a place where you could be anyone you wanted to be…as long as you were willing to work for it.”\n\nTurley, Shapiro Chair for Public Interest Law at George Washington University Law School, is a contributor on Fox News. He recently published a book titled \"Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution” ahead of America’s 250th birthday.\n\nNTIA Administrator **Arielle Roth** and Free State President **Randolph May** headlined the event. Other speakers included Duke University economics professor **Michelle Connolly** and Boston College Law School professor **Daniel Lyons**.\n\nThe Free State Foundation, a free market think tank, is based in Maryland.",
  "title": "Jonathan Turley Raises Automation Fears in Free State Foundation Address",
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