The founding fathers put in import tariffs. So you if you want to label that as socialism and government control, then it’s the kind of socialism and government control our founding fathers were comfortable with and I’m okay with it.
They viewed it as promoting freedom. By taxing foreigners wanting to sell into our markets, they avoided taxing American citizens. And by protecting American industries, they strengthened America which has been a force for freedom in the world.
They used tariffs as we might use them now, as the source of revenue for the government. They had no income tax. If we had no income tax now a uniform tariff on everything- no exceptions- would be justified. The tariff then was justified for trade because trade was unbalanced in the early days because American ships did not have the protection against Moslem pirates that English and French ships had.