[central_va]

Income taxes requires maximum intrusion and maximum control. It is very wasteful. Tariffs OTH, a consumption tax, requires no intrusion and no control. Our founders found them very useful. It is optional. Don't buy don't pay.

More tariffs and less income taxes.

[arthurus]

A 10% flat tax with no exemptions, no deductions, no credits does not even require an IRS. The reality is that without an Amendment either to repeal the 16th or to institute Constitutionally unalterable Flat Tax, the infinitely malleable income tax is not going away. Adding general tariffs to that is just piling on. It would be like adding a VAT. And tariffs are like the income tax, infinitely malleable and useful for social engineering. I would like to see the Income tax Constitutionally replaced by either a rigid flat tax or a uniform tariff.