I posted facts - you didn’t.
So can you tell me how taxing our own consumers will make America successful again?
Can ANY of you protectionists tell me how we’re going to tax ourselves into prosperity?
Tariffs do not tax us.
Tariffs tax our competition.
Responding to an urgent need for revenue following the American Revolutionary War, after passage of the U.S. Constitution the First United States Congress passed, and President George Washington, signed the Tariff Act of July 4, 1789, which authorized the collection of duties on imported goods. Four weeks later, on July 31, the fifth act of Congress established the United States Customs Service and its ports of entry where customs duties (also called tariffs or Ad Valorem taxes) were to be paid. Tariffs were originally recommended in the U.S. by the first Treasury Secretary, Alexander Hamilton, in 1789 to tax foreign imports to provide the Federal Government with money to pay its operating expenses and Federal debts and the debts the states had accumulated during the American Revolutionary War.