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That is a false dichotomy. There is no reason not to simplify the tax code and close loopholes while also ensuring the IRS has the resources it needs to adequately hold wealthier taxpayers accountable. Please participate in good faith.
Are you really saying you're taking their word for it? You make that new account just to troll?
Damn, someone reported this as trolling because this line of reasoning that you can supplant the IRS through tariffs is legitimately that stupid. Your moderator-approved punishment is that this comment will remain up so other people can see your brain dying in real time.
Remember how much more equal the US population was back in the day?
Right guys?
Right?
I don't see what that has to do with it?
Things were even more shit for the vast majority of the population back in those days.
The countries with the most socio-economic equality and the happiest population all have higher income taxes, don't rely on tariffs to finance their government and offer solid social programs financed by the State.
Those tariffs are going to hurt everyone and mostly people like you and me.
For much of our history, people didn't live long. There's a cost for so much safety and longevity that didn't exist back then.
So for reference, right now more than half the US doesn't pay income tax due to not making enough. With the External Revenue Service, everyone is going to start paying those taxes through higher prices.
So Trumps plan, as is usually the case is to push the tax burden on lower income households and decrease taxes for the wealthy.
Tariffs aren't external revenue. They're paid by the importer/consumer of the foreign goods (i.e. within the United States.) For starters, the current and proposed tariffs come nowhere close to the amount of money needed to replace income taxes. In addition, if the tariffs successfully discourage American consumers from buying products that they apply to, the money generated by the tariffs also drops even further...
Really it doesn't hold up to any scrutiny at all if you think about it even a little bit. To champion it like you're doing... at best, you have no understanding of the mechanisms being discussed, and you're believing their lies hook, line, and sinker. At worst, you are doing a poor job of trolling or are deliberately spreading propaganda. And given you know how to type, it's very sad that you don't know better, because you should.