Tariff Quotes

24 quotes by 23 authors

TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer. — Ambrose Bierce
The "health, education, and welfare" section of government is another boondoggle. First we manufacture indigent and superfluous people by legal monopolies in land, money and… — Laurance Labadie
Every businessman is in favor of freedom for everybody else, but when it comes to himself that's a different question. He's always the special case.… — Milton Friedman
I have ever been opposed to banks, - opposed to internal improvements by the general government, - opposed to distribution of public lands among the… — Sam Houston
The primary reason for a tariff is that it enables the exploitation of the domestic consumer by a process indistinguishable from sheer robbery. — Albert J. Nock
In 1833, protection was abandoned, and a tariff was established by which it was provided that we should, in a few years, have a system… — Henry Charles Carey
A protective tariff is a typical conspiracy in restraint of trade. — Thorstein Veblen
I am in favor of a national bank...in favor of the internal improvements system and a high protective tariff. — Abraham Lincoln
Tariff policy beneficiaries are always visible, but its victims are mostly invisible. Politicians love this. The reason is simple: The beneficiaries know for whom to… — Walter E. Williams
The free-trade idea, logically applied, will abolish usury; and with usury will disappear the chief bone of contention between labor and capital. But, just at… — Ezra Heywood
It is high time that the E.U.'s internal market delivered substantially lower communications charges for consumers and business people traveling abroad. A mobile-phone customer should… — Viviane Reding
There are four great measures for my administration - a reduction of tariff, an independent treasury, settlement of the Oregon boundary and acquisition of California. — James K. Polk
Before the civil war, Pottibakia was a normal member of the Comity of Nations. She erected tariff walls, broke treaties, persecuted minorities, obstructed at conferences… — E. M. Forster
The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had… — Alan Keyes
I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform. — William McKinley
Because of the Korean free trade agreement, South Koreans who want Oregon blueberries are gonna see their prices go down because we will be getting… — Ron Wyden
There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all… — Ida Tarbell
A multilateral world trade system is our very best hope for addressing the broad range of issues such as market access, tariff and nontariff barriers… — Victor Fung
The electricity tariff in Punjab is highest in north India, and it should be decreased. — Preneet Kaur
John Quincy Adams ranks with Jimmy Carter on the roster of ex-presidential redemption. Instead of completing a biography of his father, he let himself be… — Thomas Mallon

Who Wrote These Tariff Quotes

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