The problem with tariffs is they shift higher costs onto the backs of non-protected industries and consumers. — Stephen Moore Copy Share Image
Politics is involved when you don't tackle inefficiency and burden people with higher tariffs. — Piyush Goyal Copy Share Image
Tariffs would mean prices going up, and customers don't want higher prices. — Joe Kaeser Copy Share Image
A protective tariff is a typical conspiracy in restraint of trade. — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
“Let's compete freely. Goddam tariffs! Free trade and free seas—that's what's right!” — James Clavell Copy Share Image
Evidence points out that if you raise tariffs too much it will increase smuggling. — P. Chidambaram Copy Share Image
Rich countries want unfettered access to poor countries' markets, which are often heavily protected by tariffs, but they don't want to give… — Daniel Altman Copy Share Image
We shouldn't be putting tariffs on anything. That hurts working men and women in US. What we should be doing is making… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
Tariffs protect ill-considered government policies, such as costly regulations and high taxes on labor and capital that make our goods uncompetitive in… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
As someone who's built business, I take tariffs and their effects very seriously and would only employ such negotiation tools when absolutely… — Mike Braun Copy Share Image
In 1833, protection was abandoned, and a tariff was established by which it was provided that we should, in a few years,… — Henry Charles Carey Copy Share Image
My belief is that the U.S. is looking at the world through a short-term lens of tariffs and elections, while China is… — John Layfield Copy Share Image
The primary reason for a tariff is that it enables the exploitation of the domestic consumer by a process indistinguishable from sheer… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
The idea that you could send agricultural products to Tokyo and Osaka and not pay tariffs, and you would have to pay… — Leo Varadkar Copy Share Image
Every businessman is in favor of freedom for everybody else, but when it comes to himself that's a different question. He's always… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Availability of the best also is limited in our culture. And it's also extremely expensive. It's ridiculous. A kilogram of rose oil… — Horst Rechelbacher Copy Share Image
Do you seriously propose that they are going to be so insane as to allow tariffs to be imposed. The EU is,… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
We want a comprehensive package that covers export subsidies, tariffs and overall levels of support. British Prime Minister Tony Blair is making… — Kevin Watkins Copy Share Image
It should be possible to emphasize to students that the level of employment is a macroeconomic issue, depending in the short run… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
Any time you read that your government is erecting tariff barriers, supporting threatened industries with subsidies, or interfering in any way with… — John Pugsley Copy Share Image
Tariffs, government contracts, naval and military spending, nationalized industries, tax policy, social welfare, the legal privileging of labor unions were among the… — Ralph Raico Copy Share Image
We had a level of tariffs of about five per cent. Now a lot of those will go, most of them will… — Andrew Robb Copy Share Image
The free-trade idea, logically applied, will abolish usury; and with usury will disappear the chief bone of contention between labor and capital.… — Ezra Heywood Copy Share Image
This conclusion of trade agreements that go beyond the scope of mere tariff agreements, customs agreements, are most important and I'm very… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
I have ever been opposed to banks, - opposed to internal improvements by the general government, - opposed to distribution of public… — Sam Houston Copy Share Image
As proof of this statement, consider this question: Have the people ever been known to rise against the Court of Appeals, or… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways; hence, there are an infinite number of plans for organizing it:… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
For example, the supporters of tariffs treat it as self-evident that the creation of jobs is a desirable end, in and of… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The "health, education, and welfare" section of government is another boondoggle. First we manufacture indigent and superfluous people by legal monopolies in… — Laurance Labadie Copy Share Image
In developing countries, lack of infrastructure is a far more serious barrier to trade than tariffs. — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
I think that tariffs in a way can be regarded as an economic sanction without a sanction. — Scott Bessent Copy Share Image
Suffering must be the inevitable tariff exacted from spirit for residing in human form. — Mark Frost Copy Share Image
It makes no sense to introduce an agreement with border restrictions or tariffs. — Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal Copy Share Image
I am in favor of a national bank...in favor of the internal improvements system and a high protective tariff. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Opening the Pandora's box of tariffs will be an endless game, and it will be a lose-lose proposition. — Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal Copy Share Image
Tariffs on Mexico and Canada are a tax on Arizona families and businesses. — Ruben Gallego Copy Share Image
There are four great measures for my administration - a reduction of tariff, an independent treasury, settlement of the Oregon boundary and… — James K. Polk Copy Share Image
