Don’t Expect Trump’s All-Tariff Revenue Plan To ‘Starve The Beast’ – OpEd

During;his recent trip to Capitol Hill, former President Donald Trump floated a plan to finance the federal government in large part with revenue raised by import tariffs. The;details are sketchy, but the proposal’s main idea is to rely much less on the complex U.S. income tax code, which penalizes work and imposes huge...