What he can do is tell the IRS to go through the existing rules and find a reason why Harvard doesn't qualify for tax-exempt status. The problems will be that, first, whatever the reason given will be, it will head for a court case, and second, it will be almost impossible to interpret the rules so that the new interpretation hits Harvard only (and not, say, the other Ivy League schools).
No. Even this is illegal. There's specific legislation about this, which explicitly covers the president. The president is not allowed to tell anybody at the IRS to investigate any individual person or organization.
Harvard who doesnt control their grads go on to become supreme court justices and other politically appointed positions.
Harvard takes blame?
Now they are digging deep to find other reasons to attack harvard?
The scissor between productivity and wages created the force that cut the economic roots of the institution.
Trump? Trump is the elite, how could anyone come to a conclusion otherwise?
There's no ideology at play with Trump, it's just another elite extracting what they can from anyone who doesn't do what they demand.
And even if not, the man has been president twice, now deciding unilaterally who can or can not get taxpayer funds, handing out pardons to rich friends / donors, free passes for big companies who ask for it.
It amazes me folks fall for that guy's populist advertisements, Trump is the elite in spades.
Make no mistake, no matter what you think of Harvard and it's grads, if Harvard submits, Trump will support them....
westurner•9mo ago
duxup•9mo ago
Harvard defied Trump and that's why they're making this push. I don't think any given argument to the feds will change that math.
If you work for the feds, I think you know that if you were to follow a process and find that Harvard should retain their tax exempt status then you won't have a job long.
westurner•9mo ago