Even if it wasn’t regressive (which it is) it still wouldn’t work to replace income tax. The tariffs incentivize domestication of production, so people are literally incentivized to circumvent them. That’s also (lol) one of the stated goals here - being back manufacturing. But you can’t use tariffs to both bring back manufacturing and replace income tax or even a substantial part of it in the short term anyways. It’s really just one or the other. Realistically, given the competence with which they’re going about it, it’ll be neither.

Even given their horeshit premises that page is comically badly written. I don’t even think they used AI, because AI could have done it better.

So what? What is he afraid of? Just say it’s AI. Whatever Putin’s leverage was it evaporated the moment Trump won his second term. Trump just doesn’t want to tank the week of chaos and embarrassment that it would cause because he’s incredibly weak.