Tell me what the main, and nearly only way, the founders funded the government was?
Tariffs are how it was done sparky. And was done to simultaneously protect American industry, and to avoid taxing people’s incomes.
they were destitute
the fact they had to rely on tariffs because there was no other source is now passe. The income tax is the current source of revenue because the obsolete tariffs no longer served.
tariffs now and those proposed by several here are vindictive in nature
American business is a fantastic extension of the American people and the desire of a minority of a minority to curtail it is a travesty of pure ignorance