💯 if a tax has to exist, the fairest of them is a consumption tax. I think some sort of sales tax in addition to tariffs would be necessary to minimize inflation, but it would end up being the same pain, just a different flavor for lower income people. Eliminating income tax double-penalizes the poor, in a weird way , because that tax acts as an involuntary saving account to cash out on once/year. So instead of repairing a failing vehicle, they'd be paying noticably higher prices with nominally higher wages. (Not that I don't support the idea, these bandaids have to come off at some point.) The real concern would be that income tax comes back under some other future administration & the sales tax doesn't go away. Because that's how the feds roll 😅