When the federal government artificially raises business costs with stupid things like minimum wage, high taxes, regulations, and protected unions, you’ll have that problem. Those things are the CAUSES of the problem and doing away with those things will SOLVE the problem. Tariffs fail to address the causes and they fail to address the solutions. Tariffs are palliative, but do not directly hit the core issues.
Without a manufacturing base a country cannot be an economic or military power. The heart of our economy is still manufacturing and even though larger it is not the service and retail sector. Our manufacturing sector lost 55,000 factories and lost 12 million jobs in the last 10 years. If you do not think there is a problem with that then Bush is your man, hell all of them will make you happy.
Are these "causes" exacerbated or alleviated by the presence of a tariff? I wouldn't call tariffs pain relief when history has shown them to be more of a curative.
Growing manufacturing base here creates more demand for labor. More demand = rising compensation, obviating minimum wage necessity for workers in that sector of the economy. The market will set the wage.
As you point out, the tariff would add funding to the government. Then we demand Congress lower individual and corp taxes alike. A balanced budget amendment to end the baseline BS would help keep them from needing to tax anew.
Regulations. Unfortunately some are needed to maintain civilation. Weeding out the unnecessary, redundant, punitive and unconstitutional ones is needed. I personally would rather have regulations governing trade that is beneficial to the US versus a mammoth tax code filled with regulations codifying everybody's favorite deduction or loophole.