 How would this affect the prices of all the things that people have become very used to being able to afford or close to afford anyway? How does this impact on everyday life, on workers and real people? Yeah, well, I mean, tariffs make prices go up. They're intended to. The idea behind a tariff is to protect a particular industry. So if you want to protect companies in Ohio, let's say, by raising prices for goods in China, that means that