We no longer live in the colonial or even postcolonial America up until the time of the imposition of the federal income tax. We spend trillions of dollars annually much of it on entitlements and these bills simply cannot be paid apart from the income tax, capital gains and corporate income taxes. If you tried to pay for them out of tariffs there will be no international trade-full stop. If you want to revert to a tariff-based method of funding the federal government eliminate trillions and trillions from the federal budget and then come back and talk to us. Good luck with that.
By the way, where do you stand on the Article V movement to amend the Constitution? If you really want to do away with the income tax and revert to tariffs you ought to take a look at that but I suspect you have not or do not favor it.
