No question that tariffs raise the price of consumer goods, their very purpose as a defense for OUR economy.
And once again, free will is dismissed from the argument. The consumer desirous of the imported product has the choice of paying the higher price, seeking an alternative product, or doing without. A free local market guarantees that comparable products will be introduced at price points to satifisfy the consumer. Always has, always will.
Name one single item produced for a mass market that would be denied a spot in the market place, just one.
Free will is the whole point of the argument. If an importer is offering the best quality for the lowest price and government forces higher prices on those goods, then the government, as usual, has narrowed the best choices available to the consumer. That’s just common sense.
The problem in America is the federal government has made the U.S. so unfriendly to business by forcing high costs of doing business that there are fewer and fewer domestic products that are “comparable” in price and quality. And, again, tariffs do NOTHING to address these underlying causes of business and industry fleeing the country.