Tariffs Quotes - Page 2

• Business corporations in general are not defenders of free enterprise. On the contrary, they are one of the
  chief sources of danger....Every businessman is in favor of freedom for everybody else, but when it comes to himself that's a different question. We have to have that tariff to protect us against competition from abroad. We have to have that special provision in the tax code. We have to have that subsidy.

  Milton Friedman

  Competition, Special, Different

  "Defaming Milton Friedman" by Johan Norberg, reason.com. October 2008.

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

  Thorstein Veblen

  Typical, Libertarian, Conspiracy

  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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• There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.

  Ida Tarbell

  Leadership, Peace, Truth

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• Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, benefits, subsidies, encouragements, progressive taxation, public schools, guaranteed jobs, guaranteed profits, minimum wages, a right to relief, a right to the tools of labor, free credit, and so on, and so on.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Encouragement, Jobs, School

  Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.17, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Suffering must be the inevitable tariff exacted from spirit for residing in human form.

  Mark Frost

  Suffering, Spirit, Form

  Mark Frost (2013). “The List of 7”, p.167, Open Road Media

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• Rich countries want unfettered access to poor countries' markets, which are often heavily protected by tariffs, but they don't want to give up all the protections for their own goods and services.

  Daniel Altman

  Country, Giving Up, Rich Countries

  "Why the WTO Is Obsolete". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• We had a level of tariffs of about five per cent. Now a lot of those will go, most of them will go over time, some of them immediately. Now that means that electronic goods and other things, white goods, coming into Australia, will be cheaper for our community. It also means in many cases that the inputs used by our high-end manufacturers to make a final product are also coming in cheaper than they otherwise would - so it makes those manufacturers more competitive.

  Andrew Robb

  Mean, White, Australia

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• What I am anxious to do is to get the best bill possible with the least amount of friction.... I wish to avoid [splitting our party]. I shall do all in my power to retain the corporation tax as it is now and also force a reduction of the [tariff] schedules. It is only when all other efforts fail that I'll resort to headlines and force the people into this fight.

  William Howard Taft

  Party, Fighting, People

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• 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

  Soul, Commodity, Checks

  "Living Words". Book by Edwin Hubbel Chapin, 1869.

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• If a trade deficit is determined solely by rates of savings and investment, then the U.S. trade deficit will be impervious to a get-tough trade policy. Slapping higher tariffs on imports will only deprive foreigners of the dollars they would have earned by selling in the U.S. market.

  Daniel T. Griswold

  Balance, Dollars, Saving

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• Though editorialists at The New York Times and The Washington Post still don't get it, most Democrats in Congress finally do: Today's trade disputes are no longer mostly about tariffs, quotas, or free entry of goods. They are about the ground rules for capitalism. Are there to be only property rights? What about the other rights that liberal democracies have fought for since the 1880s?

  Robert Kuttner

  New York, Democracies Have, Rights

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• A readers eyes may glaze over after they take in a couple of paragraphs about Canadian tariffs or political developments in Pakistan; a story about the reader himself or his neighbors will be read to the end.

  Donald E. Graham

  Couple, Eye, Political

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• 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

  Effort, Salary, Thanks

  "Milton Friedman RIP" by Walter Block, mises.org. November 17, 2006.

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• [China] don't follow the rules and, if they don't, we're going to institute tariffs. When they send something into our country - and, believe me, they're going to obey our rules so quickly, you have no idea. And we'll end up with a better relationship with China than we do now.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Believe, Ideas

  Source: time.com

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• Businessmen are notable for a peculiarly stalwart character, which enables them to enjoy without loss of self-reliance the benefits of tariffs, franchises, and even outright government subsidies.

  Herbert J. Muller

  Business, Character, Loss

  Herbert J. Muller (1952). “the Uses of the Past”

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• [Economic restrictions] is one of the elements that is destabilising the world economic order that was at one time created largely by the United States itself at the dawn of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade that was later transformed into the World Trade Organisation.

  Vladimir Putin

  Agreement, Order, Elements

  Source: www.rt.com

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• The "health, education, and welfare" section of government is another boondoggle. First we manufacture indigent and superfluous people by legal monopolies in land, money and idea patents, erecting tariff barriers to protect monopolies from foreign competition, and taxing laborers to subsidize rich farmers and privileged manufacturers. Then we create "social workers, " etc., to care for them and thereby establish a self-aggravating and permanent institutionalized phenomenon.

  Laurance Labadie

  Government, Self, Health Education

  Laurance Labadie (1978). “Selected Essays”

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• Availability of the best also is limited in our culture. And it's also extremely expensive. It's ridiculous. A kilogram of rose oil costs me very much. By the time it is shipped here and we pay tariffs, how much more do I have to charge the consumer? And then who could afford to buy it? That is why people sell synthetic rose and end up poisoning themselves. It shouldn't be that way.

  Horst Rechelbacher

  Oil, Availability, Rose

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Many students don't really like it (fashion). If they don't like it, they won't be able to tell you who the stylists are or the photographers. If they say they can't remember the names but they recognize the work, I'll say that's bullshit because if you were selling mobile phones, you'd know all about the phones' features and tariffs.

  Louise Wilson

  Fashion, Names, Phones

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• The reality is that until we can agree on a formula that reduces tariffs globally we cannot meet this Doha promise for development. In order to keep momentum post-Hong Kong, the European Union must be willing to move.

  Rob Portman

  Moving, Reality, Order

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• Do you seriously propose that they are going to be so insane as to allow tariffs to be imposed. The EU is, I'm afraid a job destroying engine. You can see it all across southern Europe, you can see it, alas, in our country.

  Boris Johnson

  Country, Jobs, Europe

  "EU debate: Boris Johnson says Brexit will be 'Britain's independence day' as Ruth Davidson attacks 'lies' of Leave campaign in front of 6,000-strong Wembley audience". www.telegraph.co.uk. June 21, 2016.

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• This conclusion of trade agreements that go beyond the scope of mere tariff agreements, customs agreements, are most important and I'm very pleased we were able to bring this to fruition between Canada and the E.U. We've made great progress, particularly if we look at one of the great global issues, namely climate protection, without the engagement of the current administration under the leadership of Barack Obama, this Paris agreement would never have come about.

  Angela Merkel

  Issues, Agreement, Paris

  "Read President Obama's Comments Urging Donald Trump to Stand Up to Russia". time.com. November 17, 2016.

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• Tariffs, government contracts, naval and military spending, nationalized industries, tax policy, social welfare, the legal privileging of labor unions were among the means at the disposal of the governing class to exploit the public at large for the benefits of its various clienteles.

  Ralph Raico

  Philosophy, Military, Mean

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• Because of the Korean free trade agreement, South Koreans who want Oregon blueberries are gonna see their prices go down because we will be getting rid of a 45 percent tariff on this Oregon product.

  Ron Wyden

  Agreement, Oregon, Want

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• Thirty-five states have Canada as their largest export market. Let's say we get into a trade war with the United States - hopefully not, but let's say. Many states in the union are going to have trouble and more costs getting their stuff up to Canada. If we make the border a little thicker in terms of tariffs, and hit back, that will start to impact the states, in particular large business interests that are in Canada. And that starts to put indirect pressure on the White House.

  Michael Kergin

  War, Hopefully Not, White

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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