Dhammika Dharmapala on the Claim of a $4000 Average Tax Cut

Why you should be skeptical of the Trump White House's promised $4,000 'raise'

Louis Jacobson
October 26, 2017 PolitiFact

Mihir Desai, a Harvard Business School professor, pointed us to remarks he made to the New York Times critical of the White House’s use of his research. "I’m a believer in corporate tax reform, and I’m a believer in corporate tax cuts, and I believe they would go to workers," he told the Times. "But I don’t believe those numbers add up."

Dhammika Dharmapala, a tax specialist at the University of Chicago Law School, told PolitiFact that the $4,000 figure "is well outside that suggested by the scholarly consensus."