quotes about Tariffs
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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 -
TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
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 -
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 CareySource : Henry Charles Carey (1859). “The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign: Why it Exists, and how it May be Extinguished”, p.365
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U.S. corn exports to CAFTA countries will benefit from reduced tariffs and duty-free access for corn products.
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In developing countries, lack of infrastructure is a far more serious barrier to trade than tariffs.
-- Joseph StiglitzSource : "In defence of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank" by Joseph Stiglitz, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2015.
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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 PolanyiSource : Karl Polanyi (1957). “The Great Transformation”, Beacon Pr
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Suffering must be the inevitable tariff exacted from spirit for residing in human form.
-- Mark FrostSource : Mark Frost (2013). “The List of 7”, p.167, Open Road Media
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Evidence points out that if you raise tariffs too much it will increase smuggling.
-- P. Chidambaram -
A protective tariff is a typical conspiracy in restraint of trade.
-- Thorstein VeblenSource : Thorstein Veblen (2016). “THE ENGINEERS AND THE PRICE SYSTEM: From the Author of The Theory of the Leisure Class, The Theory of Business Enterprise, Imperial Germany and the Industrial Revolution & The Higher Learning in America”, p.12, e-artnow
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If you want India to lower tariffs and facilitate more free trade, then I think Indian producers also have a right to enter the European market.
-- Vijay Mallya -
Tariff policy beneficiaries are always visible, but its victims are mostly invisible. Politicians love this. The reason is simple: The beneficiaries know for whom to cast their ballots, and the victims don't know whom to blame for their calamity.
-- Walter E. Williams -
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I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform.
-- William McKinley -
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