People forget that it is as a result of Republican tax cuts why working Americans don't pay the Income tax. Now they vilify these same working class people in order to justify cutting taxes for themselves, while cutting their services.
Romney's 47% Who Don't Pay Federal Taxes - Business Insider
Meanwhile, Jim Antle at the conservative site The Daily Caller makes another salient point: The elimination of taxes on the very poor has been GOP policy starting with Reagan, and continuing through Bush:
When Ronald Reagan signed into law the Tax Reform Act of 1986, he boasted, Millions of the working poor will be dropped from the tax rolls altogether, and families will get a long-overdue break with lower rates and an almost doubled personal exemption.
Both the initial Reagan tax cuts of 1981 and indexing income taxes to inflation in 1985 had a similar effect.
In the 1990s, the Republican-controlled Gingrich Congress passed a $500 per child tax credit that also wiped out the income tax liability of many low- to moderate-income households.
Fully 93 percent of the tax relief in our bill goes to taxpayers with annual incomes under $100,000, 76 percent goes to taxpayers with incomes under $75,000, then-House Ways and Means Committe Chairman Bill Archer, a Texas Republican, said at the time. If ever there was a tax plan for Americas forgotten middle class, this is it.