Well, it doesn’t matter whether they believe it or not. It would be true.
When George the Younger presided over generous increases in adoption tax credits, the hourly adoption lawyers rate shot up 50% overnight. Most of the agencies also had massive increases. But it wasn’t a tax. With a tax, the governemtn gets the increase, even if it is just going to hand everything over.
By the way, at no point in this whole thread did I ever support a protective tariff. I’m simply stating what it is and what it isn’t.
Well, you stated that, “tariffs tax stuff made outside the country that people here buy,” which fundamentally is incorrect, as I demonstrated.