If I were president I would push to eliminate all taxes imposed on manufactured products and dump the tax on the consumer at the point of sale as a sales tax.
People wouldn’t be paying any more than they are now but it would be a great ball peen hammer to the forehead when they see what they pay in taxes if they weren’t paying them in the form of higher manufacturers prices.
I have long believed a consumption tax would be much better for this country than the current production (income) tax. But the income tax via the 16th amendment is impossible to get rid of after 105 years of loopholes and special treatment and social engineering (obama-care) being added to it.
We will never rid ourselves of corn ethanol either.