what wildly unpopular tax? I think you are confusing the severly TDS afflicted whiners with “the people”
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Hamilton explains the virtues of taxing consumption in Federalist No 21
“There is no method of steering clear of this inconvenience, but by authorizing the national government to raise its own revenues in its own way. Imposts, excises, and, in general, all duties upon articles of consumption, may be compared to a fluid, which will, in time, find its level with the means of paying them. The amount to be contributed by each citizen will in a degree be at his own option, and can be regulated by an attention to his resources. The rich may be extravagant, the poor can be frugal; and private oppression may always be avoided by a judicious selection of objects proper for such impositions. If inequalities should arise in some States from duties on particular objects, these will, in all probability, be counter balanced by proportional inequalities in other States, from the duties on other objects. In the course of time and things, an equilibrium, as far as it is attainable in so complicated a subject, will be established everywhere. Or, if inequalities should still exist, they would neither be so great in their degree, so uniform in their operation, nor so odious in their appearance, as those which would necessarily spring from quotas, upon any scale that can possibly be devised.
It is a signal advantage of taxes on articles of consumption that they contain in their own nature a security against excess. They prescribe their own limit; which cannot be exceeded without defeating the end proposed, that is, an extension of the revenue. When applied to this object, the saying is as just as it is witty, that, "in political arithmetic, two and two do not always make four .‘’ If duties are too high, they lessen the consumption; the collection is eluded; and the product to the treasury is not so great as when they are confined within proper and moderate bounds. This forms a complete barrier against any material oppression of the citizens by taxes of this class, and is itself a natural limitation of the power of imposing them.”
The tariffs. About 2/3rds of Americans oppose them.
2/3 of Americans don’t know what a tariff is
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So it’s wildly unpopular because most peoplE just don’t understand it?
If that’s the case - which seems awfully weird - maybe we should Poll People who DO know what they’re talking about. Economists. What do they think?
Or should she just poll Trump supporters and sycophants?
ask people if they like taxes… what do you think they’ll say? Its all ■■■■■■■■■
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Yes, it’s a wildly unpopular policy. A 220B+ tax hike that is suddenly economic gospel to the Trump true believers.
Certainly what trump is banking on with his ‘foreign countries pay the tariffs’ ■■■■■■■■ that many people buy.
When conservatives call Americans dumb, it’s cool.
We need to let the smart people decide. But not the ones who actually study this ■■■■■ the other smart ones.
The ones that agree with Trump.
And I feel confident in believing of the remaining 1/3, less than half have any idea how tariffs have been used throughout our history to advance the common defense and general welfare of the United States and people therein.
Weird? Saddening is more accurate, especially considering if your stopped 100 American citizens on the streets of NYC and asked them who are their two Senators and District Representative, maybe 5 could answer correctly, and probably none would be able to name each of our Supreme Court’s members. The vast majority of American citizens have been carefully groomed in government schools to be total nitwits when it comes to politics.
Yes, our problem is that democracy allows dumb people to vote. Wanna fix that?
Your Trump derangement syndrome has severely infected your gray matter.
Democracy? You just proved my point. 
You don’t think we live in a country where people elect their leaders in a democratic fashion?
What part of my statement is incorrect? It’s a 220B tax hike and it’s underwater by 30 points in polls.
Your deflection is noted. We certainly do not live in a democracy. But hey, if you are a graduate of a government school, I can understand why you would think so.
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We live in a representative democracy, your obnoxious commentary aside.
Once again you show your ignorance. The fact is, we live in a representative “Republican form of government”, guaranteed by Article IV, Section 4.
Our founder would disagree with your love affair of “democracy” .
And just what did our Founding Fathers think of “democracy”? Madison, in Federalist No. 10 says in reference to “democracy” they
“…have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths. Theoretic politicians, who have patronized this species of government, have erroneously supposed that by reducing mankind to a perfect equality in their political rights, they would, at the same time, be perfectly equalized and assimilated in their possessions, their opinions, and their passions.”
And during the Convention which framed our federal Constitution, Elbridge Gerry and Roger Sherman, delegates from Massachusetts and Connecticut, urged the Convention to create a system which would eliminate “the evils we experience,” saying that those “evils . . .flow from the excess of democracy…”
And, then there was John Adams, a principle force in the American Revolutionary period who also pointed out “democracy will envy all, contend with all, endeavor to pull down all; and when by chance it happens to get the upper hand for a short time, it will be revengeful, bloody, and cruel…”
And Samuel Adams, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and favoring the new Constitution as opposed to democracy declared: "Democracy never lasts long” . . . “It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself.”. . . “There was never a democracy that ‘did not commit suicide.’”
And during the Constitutional Convention, Hamilton stated: “We are a Republican Government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or in the extremes of Democracy.”
And then there was Benjamin Franklin, who informed a crowd when exiting the Convention as to what system of government they created, he responded by saying “A republic, if you can keep it.”
Unlike a “democracy” in which a simple majority rules AKA mob rule government, our system requires three fourths of the several States to alter the terms and conditions set forth in our Constitution.
I still believe you are a victim of a government school indoctrination with respect to and understanding of the political system of the United States. Did you graduate from a government school?