Conspiracy Quote by Thorstein Veblen Download Open image “A protective tariff is a typical conspiracy in restraint of trade.” — Thorstein Veblen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Conspiracy Libertarian Protective Restraint Tariffs Trade Typical
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer. — Ambrose Bierce 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
Protectionism has never been an answer, will never be an answer. We need trade. We need trade agreements worldwide. — Frans Timmermans Copy Share Image
The problem with tariffs is they shift higher costs onto the backs of non-protected industries and consumers. — Stephen Moore Copy Share Image
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 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 robbery. — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
Whenever government proposes to get involved in the regulation of trade, just be very, very careful about who's behind this proposal, what their motives… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Threats of trade protectionism, plus unilateral actions on the exchange-rate front, such as the heavy interventions of China, Japan, and Switzerland in the currency… — Charles Dallara Copy Share Image
We have to be vigilant against protectionism and be constantly making the argument for free trade. — Andrew Scheer Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is not a protectionist. If he imposes tariffs on China or any other country that cheats, all he wants to do is… — Peter Navarro Copy Share Image
Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
In aesthetic theory it might be extremely difficult, if not quite impracticable, to draw a line between the canon of classicism, or regard for… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature. — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
It is much more difficult to recede from a scale of expenditure once adopted than it is to extend the accustomed scale in response… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
A standard of living is of the nature of habit. ...it acts almost solely to prevent recession from a scale of conspicuous expenditure that… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
It frequently happens that an element of the standard of living which set out with being primarily wasteful, ends with becoming, in the apprehension… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage. — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
“She lives with man on terms of equality, knows nothing of that relation of status which is the ancient basis of all distinctions of… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
The thief or swindler who has gained great wealth by his delinquency has a better chance than the small thief of escaping the rigorous… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
“The ceremonial differentiation of the dietary is best seen in the use of intoxicating beverages and narcotics. If these articles of consumption are costly,… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
I do conscientiously and sincerely believe that the Order of Freemasonry, if not the greatest, is one of the greatest moral and political evils… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
I have a tendency to often share the point of view of the conspiracy theory. — Marion Cotillard Copy Share Image
The shelves of many evangelicals are full of books that point out the flaws in evolution, discuss it only as a theory, and almost… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
We have Internet now and people are not stupid. But it seems that some people are trying to push the same agenda of the… — Bassem Youssef Copy Share Image
So Pakistan is a country that I'm very fond of and have spent a lot of time, but it is a country where conspiracy… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
David Rockefeller is the most conspicuous representative today of the ruling class, a multinational fraternity of men who shape the global economy and manage… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
In 1999, Hoffmann-LaRoche paid a $500 million criminal fine for leading a worldwide conspiracy to fix prices for certain vitamins. — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
People went out there and they wrote articles and went on television shows saying that I am an operative that the CIA who used… — Bassem Youssef Copy Share Image
For people of color - especially African Americans - the idea that racist cops might frame members of their community is no abstract notion,… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
“Better for real things to be uncontrollable, better for one's life to be undecipherable and intellectually impenetrable than to attempt to make casual sense… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
