How can we finance the U.S. budget with tariffs when these are the figures we're dealing with?
The current way is not working. The economy must grow and the government spending must shrink. 100,000,000 people are not working. As more of them work, more taxes are raised. Instead of tax money drains, they become tax money generators.
The inner city revival plays an important role as well. More people off welfare via work/business means less spending for welfare.
None of it is easy but necessary.
Increase tariffs on goods that we can build/supply on our own. This will bring manufacturer focus back to providing for American interests instead of international. For instance, we export goods such as grain, milk, and textiles, and we import goods made with those things. Why don’t we just keep the exports here, manufacture those goods ourselves, tariff the goods that we can make but others are importing? That would reduce the amount of back and forth with shipping, and Americans could find jobs making those goods.
The whole reason China’s booming the way they are is that Americans are thirsty for shit they can make on the cheap. If we brought the manufacturing of those goods back to America, you cut out middle-men and shipping and put Americans back to work. America’s desire for goods, esp. luxury goods like vehicles, phones, electronics, etc., isn’t going away.
As a result of all of this, companies will come back to America to do business since the cost of exporting to us is so high. That puts Americans back to work and fattens the corporate tax rolls to make up the difference.