@tanvi_ratna : Tariffs Instead of Taxes? There was a time when America didn’t need to tax its citizens’ incomes to fund the federal government. It simply taxed the world. For more than a century, tariffs on imported goods did most of the work. Before 1913, they funded as much as 950% of • TwiCopy

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Tariffs Instead of Taxes? There was a time when America didn’t need to tax its citizens’ incomes to fund the federal government. It simply taxed the world. For more than a century, tariffs on imported goods did most of the work. Before 1913, they funded as much as 90% of

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