“So reduce marginal rates so the individual doesn’t suffer. Since it doesn’t matter.”
It matters to me; I’m all for tax cuts.
As Ronaldus Magnus demonstrated, you can’t fix poverty by giving poor people money. The only way to fight poverty is to allow people to make money.
The key to domestic investing, employment and prosperity is for the USA to make things again. A tariff would be short term pain for some and huge long term gain.