[Nextgrid]

The problem I see is that these tax cuts only really help those who don't need the help, all while the lower classes still can't pay their energy bills/rent/food.

The issue is that most of the economy relies on people (including the lower classes) spending, which they aren't going to do if they already spent all their money on rent/bills. This in turn means businesses may go underwater if they aren't getting enough customers to stay afloat and operate profitably, leading to losses of jobs and less business for the companies that serve those businesses, and so on and so forth in a cascading failure. So even if you are selfish and say "fuck the poor", it's a bad idea because your ability to stay rich relies on there being "poor" people who spend their money at your establishment. Not to mention that with extreme poverty comes crime, something that ultimately costs all of us money.

It's like "tricke-down economics", except it trickles up and unlike the former, this one actually does happen for real and we're already seeing the effects of it.

I say this as someone who otherwise is in favour of tax cuts and sees taxation as theft, but that's a discussion for another day. But if you're going to cut taxes to help with cost of living and can't cut them all, then focus your efforts where it actually helps. The ones who will actually see a non-trivial increase in their income due to this cut are those who already didn't need any help.

[bigfudge]

Plus, even taking at face value the notion that tax cuts were to inject money into the economy and stimulate growth, giving money to poor people guarantees it’s spent in the economy immediately.