You realize that the tail of a conventional airplane like the picture of the V tailed Doctor Killer actually "lifts" in the downward direction, to point the nose up and balance the airplane about the center of lift, which is somewhere in the main wing. It is actually acting against total uplift.

Some people are under the misimpression that the tail must fly at a negative angle of attack for the airplane to be stable. That’s just not true. The real rule is just that the thing in back needs to fly at a lower angle of attack than the thing in front. If the angle is so much lower that it becomes negative, that is just fine, but it is not required.