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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thebrownblob" data-source="post: 6096388" data-attributes="member: 60485">I really haven’t heard anyone say points 1 and 2 would be anything other than short term. The point of the tariffs is to cause a more even playing field., why wouldn’t these countries lower their tariffs or get rid of them together on many items?Trump has made the comment that he would like to get rid of the federal income tax. If tariffs can replace it, that’s fine, but we cannot do tariffs and the federal income tax permanently that would be a disaster.If his plan is to keep some form of tariffs and then reduce taxes to some sort of flat tax or consumption tax, perhaps that would work better.The only thing I would agree with on this issue is that he should be more clear on what his tariffs are going to accomplish in the future.</blockquote>