https://portside.org/2017-12-18/cut-taxes-rich-everyone-else-pay-more

'So when Mr. Romney made his infamous “47 percent” remarks, he wasn’t, in his own mind, saying anything outrageous or even controversial. He was just repeating a view that has become increasingly dominant inside the right-wing bubble, namely that a large and ever-growing proportion of Americans won’t take responsibility for their own lives and are mooching off the hard-working wealthy. Rising unemployment claims demonstrate laziness, not lack of jobs; rising disability claims represent malingering, not the real health problems of an aging work force.

'And given that worldview, Republicans see it as entirely appropriate to cut taxes on the rich while making everyone else pay more. '