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So are corporate taxes, but that doesn't stop leftoids from demanding companies pay their Fair Share™.
For the history of the US the majority of the government's revenue was from tariffs until about 1920. That's when they started to bring over income tax. So the choice generally seems to be you tax your own citizens by raising the price of things from outside, or you outright just take money from them.
The income tax was sold to normies as something only The Rich™ would pay, and that tariffs disproportionately hurt The Poor™. That lasted for a hot minute until the rest of us plebs had to pay income tax too.
Now we have articles on how Trump's tariffs will "punish The Poor™".
Second verse, same as the first.
I just have to emphasize the obvious, that federal spending was much much lower. The evil of income tax is that it was effective enough to enable our Byzantine apparatus. If we kept peacetime spending at the same per-xapita levels, income tax would merely be an ignored soft-evil.