Bonus Quotation of the Day…
by Don Boudreaux
on December 30, 2023
… is from Pat Toomey’s August 1st, 2007, Wall Street Journal op-ed titled “Economists Against Protectionism“:
Protectionists attempt to disrupt the market’s natural tendency to seek efficiency by imposing tariffs in order to artificially increase the price of foreign goods relative to domestic competition. Thus, tariffs are simply a tax on American consumers.
