IT’S CLEAR THAT TRUMP’S ORIGINAL PLAN WITH TARIFFS

was to use the imaginary wealth he would claim was flooding into the country as justification for attempting to entirely repeal income tax–that’s why he keeps claiming that the years leading up to 1913, when income tax was first instituted,  were America’s wealthiest. And of course, Wall Street and Silicon Valley would support that–it’s just that they can’t stomach the damage done to them by the tariffs.