The tariff tax on everything you buy
A tax that never passed Congress, charged at the register.
Tariffs are import taxes. Companies pay them at the border and pass them into prices — so you pay them at the store.
Yale Budget Lab puts this year's cost at about $570 for the average household. And because lower-income families spend more of what they earn, the burden hits the poorest tenth about three times as hard as the richest.
It's the only major tax increase of the decade, and it lands hardest at the bottom — without a single vote in Congress.
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That extra charge at the register? About $570 a year per household — a tax Congress never voted on, hitting the poorest tenth three times as hard as the richest.
Receipts: Yale Budget Lab