People making $15K a year pay the same percent Fed and State taxes I do? In which parallel universe?
Of course income tax alone aren't the onjly thing people are paying. Because you cut taxes, which cut revenue, which forced deficits, spending for things was reduced, which increased out of pocket costs for everyone.
Education is a perfect example because they just suffered through this in Kansas, which is why
Republicans repealed the tax cuts there;
Conservatives cut taxes in Kansas, making the same wild claims they always make. And when those claims inevitably were not fulfilled, the result was that KS's budget produced massive deficits. Why? Because tax cuts don't pay for themselves, despite people like weatherman pretending they do. So since deficits appeared out of thin air, spending had to be cut to close the gap because Kansas stupidly has a BBA as well. So what did KS do? They cut spending for public education which caused the KS State Board of Regents to raise tuition costs to make up for the drop in funding from Topeka, which then forced students and their families to
borrow more in order to cover the raise in tuition as a result of tax cuts.
What happened in KS was just a symptom of the bigger disease within the GOP and Conservative Movement; intellectual dishonesty.