It was my question and you are using the Red Herring tactic. Understand the tagline below?
Yes I do. They wanted to build up American industry and they needed revenue. They had no other good source of revenue. Whiskey taxes were tried, but they tended to piss off the citizenry.
Now, do you understand this part of the Constitution?
(Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.) (The previous sentence in parentheses was superseded by Amendment XIV, section 2.)