It's an old rhetorical tactic to pitt one class of poor vs the other while ignoring the elephant in the room. For eg - Pitting rural white Americans against Mex

It's an old rhetorical tactic to pitt one class of poor vs the other while ignoring the elephant in the room. For eg - Pitting rural white Americans against Mexican immigrants. You could just raise the minimum wage - a solution that would be "class warfare". You can have the rich pay for undergraduate degrees instead of the poor - as you have conveniently assumed. A rather hilarious assumption given that tax slabs for the poor are the lowest. Pitting one class of poor/middle class against the other is a fairly well known conservative tactic. Intraclass "warfare" is what conservatives want to focus on, instead of the big elephant- interclass "warfare".