> tariffs are unnecessary to tax the people they rule over. there's never enough taxes. they can't just say 90% tax, they need to split it into different types of taxes (income, sales, tariffs, special taxes to some goods, inflation, etc) so people have the illusion that they are not getting robbed removing income tax is good, don't get me wrong. but that requires reducing the government and the tax collection to a minimum. and that's impossible given the us debt and the size of their administration. so they need to get the money they lost from income taxes from elsewhere. poor people will be paying for those tariffs as a hidden sales tax/inflation, while rich people can use the money they saved from income taxes by buying land and houses
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