“Tariffs are taxes. They make the price of goods go up. The producers and importers don’t pay the tax; we do.”
let me rephrase that for you:
Lack of tariffs are taxes. They make the price paid to Americans go down. The importers pay less, cheating Americans out of their jobs.
If you want cheap foreign goods, then move the Hell out of the United States and live where you buy your crap.
No, lack of tariffs are non-taxes. When you tax something, you get less of it — largely because you make the cost of producing, distributing, and buying it do down.
Did reducing taxes on American workers last year make pay go up or down? Would raising them, as Democrats want to do, make pay go up or down? It’s the same with tariffs.
And when the tariffs raise the cost of things, the people who support them most loudly will be the first ones to complain.