Tariffs: Vandalism Passed Off as Patriotism

“Sold as sovereignty, tariffs are really just smashed shop windows with patriotic decals slapped on the glass — a swindle that leaves ordinary families colder, poorer, and paying the bill.”

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Let us begin, not with dreary charts, but with a definition wrapped in ridicule. A tariff is nothing more than a tax at the border, a customs-house mugging in which the government demands tribute before your toaster or your sneakers are allowed to cross the frontier. It is dressed up as patriotism,…