The present tax income is much better than eliminating it all. For some, only a few, think it would be better to eliminate it all. But that would affect everyone else in a bad way. Think of it like this, if the government is able to find a way to make dealing with taxes easier for everyone, they would have done it by now. Tariffs are to protect newly established domestic industries from foreign competition. Our money helps protect our goods. If we lower or even eliminate taxes, we have more of a likely chance of something bad happening.
The Federalist Papers were written and published to urge New Yorkers to ratify the proposed United States Constitution, which was drafted in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787