President Donald Trump has long praised tariffs as key to increasing wealth in the United States, idealizing Gilded Age policies that preceded the implementation of a modern federal income tax.

Among the potential benefits, Trump claims, is the ability to replace revenue from federal income taxes with money the United States is taking in from tariffs — a concept he has touted since his 2024 presidential campaign, most recently during a Cabinet meeting Tuesday.

But tariff revenue doesn’t even come close to where it would need to be if federal income taxes were eliminated, and experts say such a plan isn’t at all feasible.

CLAIM: The United States is earning enough revenue from tariffs to eventually eliminate federal income taxes.

THE FACTS: This is false. Individual income taxes broug

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