By LUDWIG VON KOOPA - Someone this stupid or misleading is the leading Democrat candidate for president? Gross.
Inexplicably to me, former California attorney general and current California senator Kamala Harris is one of the leaders in the Democratic presidential nominating contest for 2020. She's a disingenuous liar and completely unfit for office—but unlike the current guy in presidential office, she doesn't have good policy positions to make up for those faults.
Since today is Tax Day (April 15), here's a taxes-related example. All of the Democrats absolutely hate President Donald John Trump's signature tax reform legislation, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. Their lying narrative has been that it's somehow been a “tax scam” and actually resulted in an increase in your taxes. Eventually, lies are met with questions about proof, and so Kamala Harris's proof point is about the size of the tax refund you may or may not have gotten from the Internal Revenue Service:
“The average tax refund is down about $170 compared to last year. Let's call the President's tax cut what it is: a middle-class tax hike to line the pockets of already wealthy corporations and the 1%.”
The scam here isn't in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, but in the Democrats portrayal of how “tax refunds” work. Let me explain it to you, and then characterise Kamala Harris. (Scroll down to... well, you'll know where to, if you just want the Kamala Harris part.)