Quotes by Tariffs I am in favor of a national bank...in favor of the internal improvements system and a high protective tariff. Abraham Lincoln tariffsfavorswar The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed. Alan Keyes tariffsgovernmentyears 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 tariffslibertarianreason TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer. Ambrose Bierce scalestariffsgreed There is no tariff so injurious as that with which sectarian bigotry guards its commodities. It dwarfs the soul by shutting out truths from other continents of thought, and checks the circulation of its own. Edwin Hubbel Chapin commoditytariffssoul I read the book with interest, but when Jackson was a candidate in 1828 for the Presidency, I opposed him and voted for Adams. I favored a protective tariff. Ezra Cornell tariffseconomybook It's so hard to get our goods into China. And when we do get in they charge us a huge surtax. They call it a surtax or a tariff. I call it a tax. Donald Trump taxestariffschina In 1833, protection was abandoned, and a tariff was established by which it was provided that we should, in a few years, have a system of merely revenue duties. Henry Charles Carey protectiontariffsyears What protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war. Henry George tariffswarenemy Any time you read that your government is erecting tariff barriers, supporting threatened industries with subsidies, or interfering in any way with free trade between individuals or nations, you must realize that your standard of living is being lowered as a result. John Pugsley subsidiestariffsgovernment U.S. corn exports to CAFTA countries will benefit from reduced tariffs and duty-free access for corn products. John Shimkus tariffsbenefitscountry In developing countries, lack of infrastructure is a far more serious barrier to trade than tariffs. Joseph Stiglitz developing-countriestariffscountry There was nothing natural about laissez-faire; free markets could never have come into being merely by allowing things to take their course. Just as cotton manufactures were created by the help of protective tariffs, export bounties, and indirect wage subsidies, laissez-faire was enforced by the state. Karl Polanyi subsidiescottontariffs Suffering must be the inevitable tariff exacted from spirit for residing in human form. Mark Frost tariffssufferingspirit 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, and consumers always get screwed. Mark McKinnon tariffswinningwar Thanks to economists, all of us, from the days of Adam Smith and before right down to the present, tariffs are perhaps one tenth of one percent lower than they otherwise would have been. And because of our efforts, we have earned our salaries ten-thousand fold. Milton Friedman salarytariffseffort Evidence points out that if you raise tariffs too much it will increase smuggling. P. Chidambaram increasetariffstoo-much 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 tariffsregulationgovernment We shouldn't be putting tariffs on anything. That hurts working men and women in US. What we should be doing is making our manufacturing more competitive. Rick Santorum tariffshurtmen A protective tariff is a typical conspiracy in restraint of trade. Thorstein Veblen typicaltariffslibertarian12»
