OK...Your gilded view is yours, alone.
I didn’t call ANYONE a fool. I used an idiom. You choose to overlook that simple point. I’m not surprised.
You certainly present as being quite full of yourself, so all the puffery falls on you.
I am a Trump supporter; have been since 2015. I still support him. Not surprisingly, you missed that, too.
My support of the FairTax over other offered replacements for the current mess of Taxes and Tax Law in the US remains intact, too, despite your posting.
Now, please go back to your lecture hall. You have nothing left to offer, here.
I’m happy to have played a role in disabusing you of your idea that a tariff could fund the entire federal government. It is to your credit that you learned this. Many people are incapable of learning anything.
A certain defense of one’s views is natural and even good. A person should balance their prior beliefs with new information, and neither reject new information out of hand, nor uncritically accept new information.
I suspect that we both would like to see the federal government returned to its original Constitutional limits with spending at a level that could be financed with a tariff and selected excise taxes. Such a tariff would have to be a moderate tariff, it couldn’t be very high or else it would cut off imports and not raise any revenue. It was genius of the Founders to limit the federal government ability to tax, because the taxes it allowed had to be moderate given the reality of the Laffer Curve.
I note that the income tax was only adopted when Wilson cut the tariff rate below the level set by the Republicans back in 1861 (i.e., the Morrill tariff), and when the tax on liquor was destroyed by the adoption of prohibition.