Ballots Quote by Walter E. Williams

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

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

— Scott Bessent

The Trump Administration has a history of setting up a tariff exemption process that gives preference to donors and millionaires who can hire lobbyists…

— Ruben Gallego

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

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

— Thorstein Veblen

Complacency by the watchdogs hurts both taxpayers and beneficiaries.

— Chuck Grassley

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

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

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

— Stephen Moore

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

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

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