The former president has repeatedly praised a period in American history when there was no income tax, and the country relied on tariffs to fund the government.

Former President Donald Trump has spent much of the presidential campaign brainstorming new, and sometimes untested, ways to cut taxes. In the election’s final stretch, he raised the possibility of going even further: eliminating income taxes entirely.

In his response, the former president made reference to the country’s economic policies of the late 19th century, when funds from income tax were replaced with new trade tariffs. “It had all tariffs — it didn’t have an income tax ,

The New York Times today devotes a little over 1,100 words by reporter Andrew Duehren to examining a policy idea floated vaguely by former President Donald Trump: eliminating federal income taxes and replacing the lost revenue via tariffs.

Plotting’ and ‘strategizing’ for next Congress ‘has been going for several months,’ Republican congressional aide says

Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris and former Republican President Donald Trump — are offering sharply different visions of how they would use tax policy. In his third campaign for the presidency,