As for progressive taxes they actually make it more difficult to earn more money even at a near …

Here's the fun part if you are not wealthy. You would pay both anyways. It's a rigged game, if anything they would use tariffs to cut the progressive rate not the base tax rate anyways.

> This is assuming you are buying goods that are outside of the country. Most consumption weekly is things like food, drink, disposable items and not things like computer hardware which is refreshed every few years normally. Trying really hard to refrain from a snarky response, because this analysis is 100% incorrect. First, where do you think a substantial portion of food, drink and disposable items in the US comes from? More importantly, though, the entire economic rationale of import tariffs is to allow domestic producers to charge more. It doesn't matter if you just "buy American", because if the competition that American producers face is now 10% more expensive, these producers will raise prices. Or, if more charitably, foreign goods were making American-made products uncompetitive, American producers can now come in and make those goods, but only at the higher prices . Again, the e…

~98% of the United States' natural gas imports come from Canada, as well as ~60% of our crude oil, which makes up ~10% of our natural gas demand and ~25% of our crude oil demand. In addition ~25% of our uranium imports come from Canada. This isn't even getting into stuff like steel and aluminum, and other core manufacturing goods. Good luck opting out of all that to avoid the tariffs.