We need America, America needs revenue, and revenue depends on taxes. We all like to have a strong America even though nobody likes to pay the taxes needed to keep it strong.
We've got to also remember that we don't want to tax everything like they do in Albania, because then our government would go broke like Albania's, because when the rates get to high then revenue falls.
It's all there in the PDF file back in post number140; if we really want the US government to get more money from import taxes (because we don't want to pay income taxes), then we need to keep the import tax rates down.
The other good news is that we've come a long way. We're no longer saying that high import tax rates protect jobs or increase income --that was cleared up in post 141 and left us with just the concern about supporting the US treasury. Now that question's cleared up too.
Cheers!