You misunderstand me or I misspoke. They intend to "cut" taxes for some, maybe even giving them a welfare check because they don't pay taxes. At the same time they will raise taxes for those in the upper brackets. It would be more of a tax shift than a tax cut. The goal is not to really cut taxes in total, but to increase the ratio of parasites to producers and buy the votes of those who got the "cut."
Turns out it's pretty much true. Even a welfare kid with a buck in his hand from his mother to go to the 7/11 to buy bubblegum is going to pay a salestax.
I watched entirely too many Republican speakers this last campaign try to shift the argument away from "taxes" to "income taxes". As soon as you do that you LOSE the attention of even the welfare mothers ~ they know very well their kids will pay a tax at the 7/11, and they are not particularly interested about the guys at the top of the salary scale.
BTW, they know that in states with no income tax but with a sales tax, even the guys at the top of the salary scale get a federal income tax deduction for the sales taxes they pay, but they don't.
It is counter productive for Republicans to pretend they don't know anything about taxes in this country. You can't just focus on the federal income tax.
I am sure we can come up with a comprehensive program of "tax equity" that can be a winner. Our present incoherent position looks inequitable to most of the voters.