You also miss the incredible irony that the news media and Demonrats suddenly found themselves in pure opposition to a tax that would be nearly entirely paid for by corporations. They love sales taxes, even though 100% of sales taxes get passed on to consumers, except to the degree that the inability to afford basic goods creates some price elasticity. But charge a tax that gets paid for by corporations, mostly foreign? And suddenly taxes become unthinkable?
“Taxing” foreign entities with tariffs does the democrats no good, because it can’t be gamed to give their base any special breaks from it.