Their new talking point: only the wealthy pay tariff taxes.

[applegrove]

Poor people don't buy anything apparently. And are they purposely deleting the notion of a middle class the largest group by buying power? Is the agenda to make more people so poor then absorb the surviving middle class into the 1%. Why else are they trashing teaching jobs, refusing medical debt or student debt relief, getting rid of health care subsidies and paying pilots **** pay while not giving anything to charity to help the needy not fall though the now gaping holes?

Everybody knows that poors don't buy things!

— Rex Huppke (@rexhuppke.bsky.social) 2026-02-17T19:17:09.670Z

[RandySF]

1. I wish that was true.

[JustAnotherGen]

2. Eh - the 'most consumption'

This guy is an idiot. He's looking at the Tax ID's of the Importers of Record. He's not looking at what those parts and components are being turned into and sold to the avg jane and joe.