Absolutely Right. The liberal mainstream media creators of the alternate false universe say the opposite of course but we know here the media lie.
That's how America became the industrial power of the world.
Then Democrat Woodrow Wilson and Democrat FDR and the progressive era decided that the IRS and income taxes would be better for the economy than tariffs. So they amended the Constitution so they can really grow government with the unconstitutional income tax.
It was a Republican, William Howard Taft, who gave us the 16th Amendment and the income tax.