Although I enjoyed that comment, is really more about lighting someone else's money on fire. Tariffs, like taxes, adversely affect the people those who use sai

Although I enjoyed that comment, is really more about lighting someone else's money on fire. Tariffs, like taxes, adversely affect the people those who use said commodities. U.S. Tariffs are a tax on U.S. consumers. My guess is, in typical fashion, politicians (all of them) are fairly well insisted from feeling the effects of their policies. (e.g. their own healthcare, their own security detail, federal pensions, sure pay on the 1st and 15th, job security, ...)