Consumers Quote by Stephen Moore

Obstacles to trade put up the cost both to consumers and businesses.

— Jacob Rees-Mogg

Tariffs would mean prices going up, and customers don't want higher prices.

— Joe Kaeser

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

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

I would recommend that tariffs be layered in gradually.

— Scott Bessent

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

— Thorstein Veblen

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

Many economists and industry experts agree that the United States faces unfair competition and artificially low prices that have damaged the domestic steel industry.…

— Annie Lowrey

As history has repeatedly proven, one trade tariff begets another, then another - until you've got a full-blown trade war. No one ever wins,…

— Mark McKinnon

The benefits of a tariff are visible. Union workers can see they are "protected". The harm which a tariff does is invisible. It's spread…

— Milton Friedman

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

— Ambrose Bierce