If the government had more money than it knew what to do with, we wouldn't be running Trillion dollar deficits. Our current monetary foundation is based on debt, because we can always go more into debt tomorrow to pay the debts of today.  Until we can't. Bitcoin changes that entire foundation and flips it over.  The more debt you have, the weaker you are.

Thomas Paine didn't have as good of an understanding of economics as Alexander Hamilton did, but he did understand politics.  The people institute governments in order to manage infrastructure that is beyond the ability of individuals or companies.  Governments may have been corrupted over the last 250 years, but that doesn't negate the need for governance systems that function well.

Tariffs don't dictate whether a good or service is available, the intention is to increase the costs of imported goods and services to give domestic labor a chance to compete fairly.  They've always been part of a healthy multi-national economic landscape, they've just dropped off the radar of policy makers for so long thanks to the insanity of the WTO that nobody knows how to even talk about them with intelligence, let alone implement something that would actually accomplish what needs to be done.

Tariffs are so far away from the ideals of central planning it's almost funny to see them used in the same paragraph.  If we have concerns about a New World Order at the level of the WTO and UN, IMF, and ABC XYZ, then tariffs are the way out of that pit of vipers, not a reason to jump into one.

And this is from someone who considers himself to be a hard left progressive.  Take it with a grain of salt. 

 Maybe not, but we would still have all the problems with government that we have. Funding is the only way government can grow and intrude more in our lives. Whether that take it or make it doesn't matter in the grand scheme. The fundamental issues remain the same. We should neither spend on debt nor spend on money obtained through force. They're both the same thing: theft.