I Would Like to Think This is Stating the Obvious, But…

“Income taxes” are a subset of the category of “taxes,” but the former category does not in fact fully encompass the latter. Republicans like to pretend that you can’t give a tax cut to people who don’t pay federal income taxes because this conveniently ignores the regressive taxes that constitute a much higher percentage of the ordinary person’s tax burdens. This is greatly aided by hack journalists who let this ridiculous bait-and-switch pass without comment.