Can Tariffs Replace Income Taxes?
We need to deal in reality instead of wishful thinking.
Can tariffs replace income taxes paid by Americans earning an income under $200,000 annually, as President Trump has suggested?
We seem to have entered a new world in 2025, or rather, reincarnated an older America whose tax receipts were heavily built on tariff payments. U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick recently stated that tariffs could replace income taxes paid by Americans making up to $150,000 per year.
And certain economic nationalists have urged that there is a vital causal connection here worth recalling in an “American system” of tariffs and protectionism, and the growth of American industry. They argue that America’s Gilded Age wasn’t regressive economically; in fact, the country exploded in growth, commerce and inventions.
Economic Dynamism
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An AI Commencement Address That Might Not Elicit Boos
Someone has to dare to point the path forward in those communities. We need many more Nehemiahs.
A Tech Republic, If You Can Keep It
Before destroying the sources of American technological dominance, perhaps we should consider what would happen if the U.S. finds itself envying technological advances happening elsewhere
