[central_va]

Like all taxes tariffs are bad but income taxes are both bad AND EVIL. Consumption based taxes, like the tariff, are conservative and income taxes are progressive.

Conclusion: The status quo is progressive so if you support the status quo and not the tariffs then you are by default a progressive.

[enumerated]

“Like all taxes tariffs are bad...”

Can’t we just stop right there and admit the problem in 2018 is the gargantuan size of the government?

If we address that elephant in the room, and pare the government down to its proper size and scope, then I’ll concede that tariffs are a better form of taxation.

Until then, I refuse to choose between two poisons and say one is good and the other bad. Poison is poison, and as long as this swollen tick of a government continues to eclipse the private economy, ANY form of tax that enables that status quo is just that - poison.