President Trump has been telegraphing a seismic shift in American tax policy for months, and now he’s saying it openly enough that even the slowest members of Congress should be able to catch on. He’s talking about using tariff revenue to slash, massively slash, or eventually eliminate the federal income tax altogether. And today he doubled down again, saying we are absolutely on track to make it happen. For a country that’s been bled dry by the IRS for more than a century, that’s the kind of message that hits like a breath of fresh oxygen.
JUST IN: 🇺🇸 President Trump says US may "completely" cut income tax due to tariff revenue. pic.twitter.com/7Fh7Kwfg4b
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Trump reminded everyone of something history books conveniently gloss over. From roughly 1850 until 1913, the United States ran entirely on tariffs and excise taxes. No federal income tax. None. And those decades just so happened to be some of the wealthiest, most expansive years in American history. In fact, Trump pointed out that by the late 1880s the country had so much money that Congress literally created a committee to figure out how to give it away. Imagine today’s Washington trying something that sane.
Then came 1913. Tariffs were gutted, the 16th Amendment legalized the income tax, and the federal government did what it does best, it jammed its hands into everyone’s pockets. Within a couple decades the country landed in the Depression. But according to Trump, it wasn’t tariffs that caused it. Tariffs were already gone. The shift to an income tax based system strangled the economy at the worst possible time.
Now Trump is proposing something simple. Bring tariff revenue back to the center and take the financial boot off the neck of American workers. It won’t happen overnight. He’s ten months into his presidency and fighting a Congress and a court system that treat progress like a contagious disease. But he keeps pushing because he understands something basic. If you want an economy to explode with growth, you stop punishing people for earning money.
He has already laid out the steps. No tax on tips. No tax on overtime. No tax on Social Security. Major cuts in 2026. And eventually a system where Americans pay tax only when they choose to spend, not when they try to build a life. A flat consumption tax that excludes necessities would finally shut down the class warfare nonsense. If wealthy people want to buy yachts and designer toys, let them pay more. Everyone else keeps their earnings.
Trump isn’t whispering about this. He’s telling the country plainly. Tariffs once funded America and made it strong. They can do it again. And if he has his way, the IRS’s worst nightmare is coming.
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