[Smokey Stover]

What we need to do is cut spending, not just push the tax burden around.

[jpsb]

The federal government gets about half it’s revenue from the progressive income tax. There is no way tariffs could completely replace that revenue stream so with finacing via tariffs means a smaller leaner federal government. Tariffs would force spending cuts if tariffs replaced the progressive income tax. Now having both tariffs and income tax is not a good idea. The income tax has to go.