Income taxes are horrible. So are consumption taxes. Both should be as low as possible. But you want to raise them.
Do you like sky-high gasoline prices? Because they’re at least partly the result of ridiculously high consumption taxes. There are taxes at every stage of the process.
Are you in favor of raising the cost of American exports? Because retaliatory tariffs and trade barriers are coming if we do this.
Raising tariffs will undo a lot of the good that we got from the recent tax cuts. Of course, you protectionists will never admit that. Why? To admit that ruins your religion.
And to claim that “Tariffs are not mandatory” is as ridiculous as claiming that income tax is not mandatory, or payroll tax (which also is a drag on the economy and is the next tax we ought to cut.) You trade, you pay. It’s not as if we can just stop trading. One can stop smoking and avoid the tobacco tax. One can stop drinking and avoid the alcohol tax. But we can’t stop trading. Economic isolationism would do massive harm to our economy.
As a consumer I cannot be compelled to buy anything; so therefore I will not pay tariff UNLESS I WANT TO. That's the truth which makes the tariff far superior to income tax.
Face it, you are a socialist/progressive that is tacitly supporting the income tax by fighting the tariff. This puts you and your ilk at odds with the founding of both the country and the Republican Party. It also makes you a globalist and not a nationalist. So you are not a patriot because you can be either a globalist or a patriot but not both. The two things are mutually exclusive.
The world is catching on. Communion and fascism were defeated during the last century and globalism will be defeated this century. Globalist/Free Traders are on the way out. Your false econ-religion will die.
This is very interesting. Here is a definition from wiki on isolationism which you have stated is a bad thing.
A policy or doctrine of trying to isolate one's country from the affairs of other nations by declining to enter into alliances, foreign economic commitments, international agreements, and generally attempting to make one's economy entirely self-reliant; seeking to devote the entire efforts of one's country to its own advancement, both diplomatically and economically, while remaining in a state of peace by avoiding foreign entanglements and responsibilities.
Since you said this is bad thing let me re-write with the context pointed in the opposite direction, creating a globalist definition from it and tell me if you would agree whether this describes you.
Globalism(converse of isolationism)
A policy or doctrine of trying to involve one's country in the affairs of other nations by entering into alliances, foreign economic commitments, international agreements, and generally attempting to make one's economy entirely dependent; seeking to devote the entire efforts of one's country to global advancement, both diplomatically and economically, while remaining in a state of conflict by through foreign entanglements and responsibilities.