Trump Continues To Push Idea Of Replacing Income Tax With Tariffs

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : It is better to have Americans grumbling about high prices at Target than to organize against the IRS directly or, even worse, demand tax policy changes and for the rich to pay their fair share.
52% : Even if we assume, against all empirical evidence, that the numbers pencil out -- factories immediately booming, jobs multiplying, and tariff revenue flowing -- it simply means the source of government revenue would change without the amount significantly changing.
51% : In the late 19 century, the US government was indeed funded primarily through tariffs -- exactly the economic system President Trump appears to intend to recreate.
45% : Even if the White House slapped tariffs on every imported good -- and Americans paid them without cutting consumption and exporting countries continued shipping goods without abatement -- it would still fall hundreds of billions short of what's needed to finance Social Security, defense, Medicare, and everything else Washington funds.
33% : This disproportionately burdens lower- and middle-income Americans -- precisely the voters President Trump is intending, at least rhetorically, to help.
19% : President Trump appears to believe that Americans dislike the act of paying taxes more than they are struggling with the cost of living.

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