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Mark Pocan: “The average family is probably paid about $1,700 in tariffs.”

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

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With Liberty and Justice for Some Ep. 51 with Dean Baker

Published | Video Starts at 16:09

But the one thing we can say with a high degree of certainty, it's not the foreign countries that are paying it. That's, that's very clear. And I've seen some estimates as of now they think they said The average family is probably paid about $1,700 in tariffs. Is that around a number that's close in the ballpark of what it's a reasonable number. So if we look at the counterfactual and it's always hard to say, you know, what does the world look like if we hadn't had these tariffs. (16:09–16:15)

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