Kamala Harris is peddling a dishonest attack on lower tax refunds

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., has seized on early reports of lower tax refunds this year to make a dishonest attack against the 2017 Republican tax law.

To be clear, the level of people’s tax refunds has absolutely nothing to do with their overall tax burden, which will be lower for nearly every taxpayer as a result of the enacted tax changes. Federal taxes get withheld from paychecks throughout the year, and then by the following April, taxpayers file and they have to pay the balance if they under-withheld in the previous year, or they are issued a refund if they overpaid.