You need to stop coping about tarries as a replacement to income tax,
First off From an Austrian school taxation is theft standpoint a tariff is just as much theft as income tax I am sick of MAGA "libertarians" pretending otherwise.
Second The hard truth is that Trump's vision of using tariffs to replace income tax will never happen. Income tax has so many more advantages, it is way easier to collect, doesn't really distort the buying or selling of goods and services. People aren't going to stop working over a 5% income tax but they will stop buying things over a 5% tariff. They actually increase government money in a recession because people work more hours and more overtime. Tariffs are the opposite lowering revenue as people buy less things, they are way less stable and they increase prices for goods massively. If he wants to pay down the national debt he needs income tax he can't afford to have inconsistent revenue. This hurts your ability to refinance debt and take out newer lower interest debt to replace older higher interest debt. Even from a populist what about the working class standpoint income taxes are better. The average America makes 40K a year, if you make 40K a year you get most of your money back from tax returns anyway IIRC you are let paying $2816 a year. Trump's tariffs would likely cost you more then $2816 a year especially for hard to avoid expensive purchases set to become more expensive from the tariffs like car and house prices. IIRC the highest payer of income tax is doctor's, surgeons medical experts. We have these mother fuckers by the balls we can raise their income tax and they might grumble but they won't do shit since even with the income tax rise they can't just leave because no other country will let them charge what we let them charge. This is actually a way to leverage an American weakness into a strength part of why China's strategy has been so successful is the Chinese know how to play to their strengths while America is to wishy washy and doesn't focus enough.
