Benefits Quote by Milton Friedman

Tariffs protect ill-considered government policies, such as costly regulations and high taxes on labor and capital that make our goods uncompetitive in international markets.

— Paul Craig Roberts

The truth is that tariffs have a long and storied history as both a revenue-raising tool and a way of protecting strategically important industries…

— Scott Bessent

I think that tariffs in a way can be regarded as an economic sanction without a sanction.

— Scott Bessent

TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer.

— Ambrose Bierce

The problem with tariffs is they shift higher costs onto the backs of non-protected industries and consumers.

— Stephen Moore

Protectionism is a misnomer. The only people protected by tariffs, quotas and trade restrictions are those engaged in uneconomic and wasteful activity. Free trade…

— Walter Block

Rich countries want unfettered access to poor countries' markets, which are often heavily protected by tariffs, but they don't want to give up all…

— Daniel Altman

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 almost every case, whenever a tariff or quota is imposed on imports, that tax is strongly supported by the domestic industry getting the…

— Stephen Moore

A protective tariff is a typical conspiracy in restraint of trade.

— Thorstein Veblen

First of all, a president of the United States can't unilaterally impose a tariff on another country. It takes an act of Congress, and…

— Sherrod Brown

Any time you read that your government is erecting tariff barriers, supporting threatened industries with subsidies, or interfering in any way with free trade…

— John Pugsley