And sales taxes are paid by sellers, and corporate income taxes are paid by firms, right?
Manufacturing is special and is a major wealth creation engine of the economy. Any company engaged in DOMESTIC manufacturing should be exempt from income taxes. Tariffs could more than make up for that revenue.
Tariffs are hardly a palliative as they are a tax, therefore a cost borne by the producer, wherever the point of origin of the goods. As such, they are a weapon that distorts trade flows and a favored weapon of political assholes devoid of free market economics such as the GOP; which used them to fund the entire government from 1865 till the imposition of the income tax in 1913. History has detailed the corrosive impact of Tariffs on the Great Depression.