You put tariff first and this gives people believing in fairy tales a false life-line. They don’t know that at the time the USA was funded only by tariffs the government spending was about 2.85% of the GDP, but you do know and that is why you shouldn’t entice with false hope.
> You put tariff first and this gives people believing in fairy tales a false life-line. <
Did you notice the great big “AND” in my post #22? Tariffs AND an income tax.
But yeah, you’re right about the size of the today’s government precluding a tariffs-only approach. I guess it could be tried. But the tariff would have to be so high that no one would buy anything made overseas.
Then then tariffs would bring in essentially nothing.