Revolution doesn't necessarily equate to violence. Just an overturning of the old system and replacement by the new. Such as the Industrial Revolution. So the term fits.
Tariff-based taxation would drastically change the economy by incentivizing domestic production (tariff free), retaining earnings to provide a cash buffer (currently heavily taxed as income), decrease pollution (due to reshoring manufacturing and disincentivizing nonsense like growing peaches in the USA, shipping them to China for packaging, then shipping them back), and tie tax revenue to economic performance so that economic downturns actually shrink tax receipts (instead of the current 100% inflation = tax revenue doubles insanity).
i don't disagree but I never said anything about violence. my term renaissance implies we are being held back intentionally by those in control and if we were to be freed from that control, which has a lot to do with taxes, we can see the US, the West and possibly the world flourish, not just a change of systems.
i agree with your second paragraph. the US could become a lightning rod for the worlds innovators to come and thrive, again leading to what I believe could be a second renaissance.
I see what you mean. Good point!
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