Also flatly, people cannot pay their rent, or eat GDP, its possible to have lower GDP growth and still be more prosperous country, most of the GDP loss will be to upper income earners.
Right, but then you’re working with a smaller pie than if you just skipped tariffs, taxed the upper income earners, and redistributed that.
And tariffs are particularly regressive - mostly resulting in higher costs for your low income earners, since tariffed goods are a relatively higher part of their expenses than they are for the wealthy.
Tariffs are an economically inefficient way to get a bigger pie slice for the median earner.
I'm a big fan of UBI - love it, make all my librarian bits very happy! - but I also acknowledge the political reality of it.
I also do see the value in work, people derive significant mental health benefits from meaningful work too, that shouldn't be discounted.