tariffs are NOT taxes, so:
how much have he and his father made
... by selling out the Republic?
If tariffs are not taxes, then who gets the collected tariffs?!? The federal government or the U.S. citizens or the domestic manufacturers?
If the federal government, then are rebates given or the income tax rates for U.S. citizens equivalently lowered to cancel out the increased cost of buying the higher priced foreign (or domestic) goods?
Didn’t the Supreme Court decide that Obamacare was a tax? SO therefore tariffs being a tax then the SC ok with that??? Just asking.
The money is taken from the purchaser and given to the US government. Tariffs are taxes. What else are they? It’s a tax levied on purchases. It is a tax on the purchase of imported goods and services.
You can call it a tariff or a duty or a levy or an assessment or even a contribution (if you want to act like a Democrat) or you can face reality.
Like any tax its purpose is to either raise revenue or change behavior.