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Mark Pocan: “All it's doing is it's a backdoor tax on consumers and small…”

Featuring: Mark Pocan, Democratic | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 2

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With Liberty & Justice for Some ep. 63: Discussing how Trump hurts Small Businesses

Published | Video Starts at 15:52

We were getting retaliatory tariffs. Yeah. And then that was affecting them. So this whole myth of tariffs bringing in money to the country, All it's doing is it's a backdoor tax on consumers and small businesses. that try to figure out how to absorb some of the costs as much as they can, but you can't absorb all of those costs. (15:52–15:58)

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Asserts that tariffs function as a backdoor tax on consumers and small businesses.

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