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Probably because they don't have much leverage in this area, with Biden continuing some of Trumps policies on tariffs.
Targeted tariffs as part of a trade war is significantly different than the proposed universal tariffs to "eliminate taxes" that he's proposed.

AKA: we figured out how to pass a consumption tax which disproportionately hurts poor people without calling it that because we know it's universally unpopular. When billionaires effective tax rate drops to what will probably be 1%, the wheels are going to REALLY fall off.

It isn't the poor that fund either political parties.
Not their campaigns, no. But the labor of the poor make the world go around. And their votes count just as much as a billionaires.