Burden Quote by Piyush Goyal

Politics don't exist, actually. It's just a cheap business. Economics is what makes politics.

— Eugene Hutz

To me, economics doesn't need to be political.

— Trish Regan

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

— Stephen Moore

Economics is really politics in disguise.

— Hazel Henderson

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

Political Economy means that everybody except politicians must be economical.

— Anonymous

It is in all our interests that the government, when buying goods or services, pays the lowest price.

— Jacob Rees-Mogg

Everybody has to remember that economics is very tied to politics.

— Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada

For too long, the conventional wisdom has rejected the use of tariffs as a tool of both economic and foreign policy. However, like Alexander…

— Scott Bessent

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 problem is government spends too much. So raising taxes is what politicians do, instead of reducing spending.

— Grover Norquist

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

— Scott Bessent