Tariffs are in the end taxes. And somebody has to pay that tax. I think one thing people are forgetting is that… — Greg Ip Copy Share Image
Thanks to economists, all of us, from the days of Adam Smith and before right down to the present, tariffs are perhaps… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
This is where I would lodge my deepest criticisms. We have very whimsically been threatening and then backing off of tariffs. The… — Cal Cunningham Copy Share Image
Trade wars in which countries are then obliged to retaliate by raising their own tariffs against the initiator undermine growth and hurt… — Dominic Grieve Copy Share Image
Though editorialists at The New York Times and The Washington Post still don't get it, most Democrats in Congress finally do: Today's… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
We try to prevent the creation of artificial rents. Rather than setting up quotas to stop imports we levy a tariff, that… — James M. Buchanan Copy Share Image
What I am anxious to do is to get the best bill possible with the least amount of friction… I wish to… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
Before the civil war, Pottibakia was a normal member of the Comity of Nations. She erected tariff walls, broke treaties, persecuted minorities,… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The benefits of a tariff are visible. Union workers can see they are "protected". The harm which a tariff does is invisible.… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
[Economic restrictions] is one of the elements that is destabilising the world economic order that was at one time created largely by… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
There was nothing natural about laissez-faire; free markets could never have come into being merely by allowing things to take their course.… — Karl Polanyi Copy Share Image
Business corporations in general are not defenders of free enterprise. On the contrary, they are one of the chief sources of danger…Every… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Lincoln was a modernizer, so to speak. He believed in economic development. As a Whig before the war he favored what we… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
Tariff policy beneficiaries are always visible, but its victims are mostly invisible. Politicians love this. The reason is simple: The beneficiaries know… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Average tariffs between rich countries are only 3 per cent. But developing countries face tariffs of more than 300 per cent in… — Hilary Benn Copy Share Image
Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
It is high time that the E.U.'s internal market delivered substantially lower communications charges for consumers and business people traveling abroad. A… — Viviane Reding Copy Share Image
President Trump's first-term tariffs did not raise the prices of the affected goods, despite predictions back then that the tariffs would prove… — Scott Bessent Copy Share Image
I have had the accomplishment of something like this at heart ever since I was a boy… So I feel tonight like… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Like all Canadians, I was deeply frustrated by the decision of U.S. President Donald Trump to impose tariffs on Canadian steel and… — Erin O'Toole Copy Share Image
If a trade deficit is determined solely by rates of savings and investment, then the U.S. trade deficit will be impervious to… — Daniel T. Griswold Copy Share Image
Everybody talks about tariffs as the first thing. Tariffs are the last thing. Tariffs are part of the negotiation. The real trick… — Wilbur Ross Copy Share Image
Blockading squadrons are a means whereby nations seek to prevent their enemies from trading; protective tariffs are a means whereby nations attempt… — Henry George Copy Share Image
![“What I am anxious to do is to get the best bill possible with the least amount of friction… I wish to avoid [splitting our party]. I shall do all in my power to retain the corporation tax as it is now and also force a reduction of the [tariff] schedules. It is only when all other efforts fail that…” quote by William Howard Taft](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/07b/william-howard-taft-3006_amount_what-i-am-anxious-to-do-is-to-get-the-be_41279.jpg)
![“[Economic restrictions] is one of the elements that is destabilising the world economic order that was at one time created largely by the United States itself at the dawn of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade that was later transformed into the World Trade Organisation.” quote by Vladimir Putin](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/559/vladimir-putin-261_agreement_economic-restrictions-is-one-of-the-elem_2693366.jpg)
