Conservatives whisper fearfully of this prospect. Before Bush unveiled his tax cut plan, National Review explained why he should avoid cutting taxes for low-income workers. The calculation here is almost admirably devious. A corollary of Bush's false assertion that his tax cut would help everyone, but especially the poor, is that the Democrats' proposals might help the poor but wouldn't help every one else. But the corollary is wrong as well.
Democratic proposals do give tax relief to everyone.
One Democratic scheme would confine its income tax cuts to the lowest tax rate, and news reports often state, erroneously, that this would help only the lower and middle classes. Below that level, your income is taxed at lower rates. This means that all income taxpayers pay the lowest rate on at least some of their income, and cutting that lowest rate would benefit them all. But Bush's tax cut, designed while the economy was still booming, is exactly the wrong kind to do this. If you want tax cuts to stimulate the economy, you need something quick and targeted at the poor, the group most likely to spend its windfall rather than save it.