In his Oct. 25 appearance on “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast, former President Donald Trump floated the idea of eliminating the income tax and substituting it with sweeping tariffs.
Host Joe Rogan asked if the Republican presidential candidate had made the suggestion, as earlier reports had indicated.
“Yeah, sure. But why not?” Trump replied.
“We will not allow the enemy to come in and take our jobs and take our factories and take our workers and take our families unless they pay a big price. And the big price is tariffs.”
He referenced President William McKinley, who served from 1897 until his assassination in 1901, as “the tariff king.”…