It is far from “established” that OVERALL tariffs increase employment, quite the contrary. They can increase employment in the favored industries but it Decreases employment in non-favored industries.
If they are so good why does the President repeatedly say that the goal is no tariffs? He clearly recognizes that it is a political instrument to be avoided if possible.
We can’t tax imports enough to fund the government not even close. That possibility left the room when the Civil War broke out and won’t come back in.
The world we live in has income taxes and they are not even close to the graft and corruption of the State legislatures during the time of the tariff. We will never escape that reality of income taxes. We would all like no taxes including the hidden ones, like the tariff. See “The Scarlet Woman of Wall Street for a slice of the real world.
They are political instruments with economic costs.
You really are a socialist, perhaps a communists. You should be booted from posting on Free Republic IMO.