Kamala Harris Mistweet on ‘Tax Hike’
Sen. Kamala Harris, a declared candidate for president, cited preliminary IRS tax refund data for 2018 to criticize the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act as “a middle-class tax hike.” That’s a misreading of the data.
“Refunds are not the same as taxes that you owe,” Howard Gleckman, a senior fellow at the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, told us in a phone interview. “Refunds tell you nothing about whether a person’s tax liability has changed.”
In fact, the vast
