The reason Trump is stressing the importance of tariffs is because tariffs are the way the US Constitution specifies the funding of the government. The only taxes allowed by the Constitution as originally written were taxes on unearned income. The Founders despised income tax to the point of saying it was a sin to tax the sweat of a man's brow. Income tax came along after the FedRez Act of 1913. Which also violated the Constitution because said document only empowers Congress to coin money, not some foreign owned central bank. As a matter of fact the Constitution only enumerates 18 powers to the central government, everything else belongs to the States and the People.
The reason Trump is stressing the importance of tariffs is because tariffs are the way the US Constitution specifies the funding of the government. The only taxes allowed by the Constitution as originally written were taxes on unearned income. The Founders despised income tax to the point of saying it was a sin to tax the sweat of a man's brow. Income tax came along after the FedRez Act of 1913. Which also violated the Constitution because said document only empowers Congress to coin money, not some foreign owned central bank. As a matter of fact the Constitution only enumerates 18 powers to the central government, everything else belongs to the States and the People.
Well said.