If China's going to dump cheap steel in the United States, we absolutely should use tariffs to support the U.S. industry and workers when it comes to that. That's a smart tariff. But The indiscriminate use of tariffs for everything on all sorts of countries... turns out to be more of a tax on consumers in the US because at the end of the day, countries don't pay tariffs, people do. But can you talk about tariffs from an economic perspective that benefits workers? Because I think you and I and you know, Debbie Dingle, Don Dingle or Don Norcross, Chris … (32:42–33:00)
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Asserts that indiscriminate tariffs act as a tax on U.S. consumers.
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