Subject: Re: Replacing income tax with tariff?
So basically the progressive income tax is being replaced with a regressive VAT masquerading as a series of tariffs.

Turning back the clock, to 1912, when there were high tariffs, and no income tax. iirc, enacting the income tax was part of a package, linked with reductions in tariffs, as the tariffs were seen as unfairly born by lower income people.

Steve