Source: Orange County Register
by the editorial board
“‘We call a tariff a protective measure. It does protect; it protects the consumer very well against one thing. It protects the consumer against low prices,’ explained the great economist Milton Friedman in 1978. Tariffs, after all, are not complicated to understand. They are taxes. When a country imposes tariffs on imports, they are imposing taxes on their own population. Accordingly, the tariff-spree currently being undertaken by President Donald Trump is a massive tax increase on the American people. … The cost of tariffs, of course, will be paid by the American people. It’s a lesson conservatives and Republicans seem to understand when it comes to tax increases proposed by Democrats.” (08/12/25)