You haven’t been following what I have said. A uniform tariff for the purpose of revenue is far superior to n income tax. We are not going to get rid of the income tax. Given that we are stuck with an income tax, the tariff is just giving Congress another major tax to play games with and raise every year. Do you actually think a 10% or 20% tariff is going to stay at 10 or 20% for more than the first year? If Trump had gone for a real and low flat income tax, maybe 10-13% I would believe he could be working toward pushing an Amendment to repeal the 16th Amendment. Then a tariff would be appropriate. Most people on the right who want that tariff are into punishing our trading partners and competitors or are just miffed because they are out trading us. They are but it is what we have done to ourselves by making higher business taxes than anyone else and more expensive regulation. On trade what is appropriate and the royal road to fast rising prosperity is to take off almost all of the regulation and all or almost all of the business taxes. On an evenly taxed and regulated playing field American business produces more per dollar of input than anyone else in the world. If you think everyone else has to be punished then there is no discussion.
It is not “punishment” against anyone to have an excise tax. I will say our country suffers, both from crime and unemployment, when we don't have millions of people working. Idle hands do the devil's work, as they say.
The excise tax has always been there. There is no “extra” tax of any sort. Excise taxes were a primary source of federal revenue for almost 130 years. We never abolished it.