[ConservativeMind]

Tariffs are a voluntary tax to pay for a consumer. Additionally, buying a tariffed good assures that consumer, regardless of work status, pays it.

It is equivalent to a national sales tax on only those goods.

What’s not to like a out that? It is a completely legal, demand-based tax that hits foreign good buyers on welfare, earning money “off the table,” and from gainfully-employed persons.

[semimojo]

Tariffs are a voluntary tax to pay for a consumer.

No, the choice is to pay for the tariffed imported good or pay an artificially high price for the domestic one.

I want to pay the market price for the good and the government is preventing that.