How do you draw such a conclusion? Even an extremely progressive income tax cannot capture the earning channels that many wealthy individuals benefit from (especially when you consider unrealized gains and complex financial instruments).
Tariffs are a consumption tax. Wealthy individuals tend to leverage their wealth to spend more money.
Wealthy individuals own a larger share of businesses. Those businesses once again will bear the burden of these tariffs along with their consumers.
Compare this to a payroll tax. This is a direct tax that scales as a company’s employee base scales. This directly harms employees by decreasing their salary. It also decreases the number of employees a company can hire.
Compare this to a corporate income tax. This also increases prices and decreases employment. This is not much different than tariffs. However tariffs are targeted and create incentives to produce more within a nation (ie more domestic jobs).
Tariffs also provide a counterbalance against companies outsourcing (a technique that depresses domestic wages and encourages financial creativity to dodge federal taxes by establishing foreign based entities (eg Double Irish Agreement)
What about the environmental impact of chopping down forest to make way for farmland. The impact of billions more traversing the globe and leaving their litter. What about the real scarcity of clean water on this planet, sure we can desalinate the ocean but what will be the unitended consequences of this. What about when we start running out of oxygen when we've destroyed everything else under the vanguard of a human population without scarcity.