Alan Garber
Appearances
WSJ What’s News
What’s Behind President Trump’s Trade Agenda
If the government goes through with a plan to revoke our tax-exempt status, it would, number one, be highly illegal unless there is some reasoning that we have not been exposed to that would justify this dramatic move. But tax-exempt status is granted to educational institutions. to enable them to successfully carry out their mission of education and for research universities of research.
WSJ What’s News
What’s Behind President Trump’s Trade Agenda
Obviously, that would be severely impaired if we were to lose our tax-exempt status. And I should add, it would be destructive to Harvard, but the message that it sends to the educational community would be a very dire one, which suggests that political disagreements could be used as a basis to pose what might be an existential threat to so many educational institutions.