🧩 BND Motif Index · M186
Tariffs hurt consumers
Tariffs are a tax on ordinary people: they raise the price of everything and households pay the bill.
- 13claims filed under it
- 4left shows it came up on
- 4center shows it came up on
- 2right shows it came up on
- 2claims retold online
- 1fact-checker
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
🪜 rests on 🧩 Personalizing costs 🧩 Backfiring policy 🧩 In this economy?
🔗 goes with: 🧩 It's the economy, stupid 🧩 Markets hate uncertainty 🧩 Pain at the pump 🧩 Trade as a weapon
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
📰 In the news
the stories its claims were told about, the most told first (matched by our tools, so a link can be wrong)
- 📰 U.S. trade deficit widens in August 2026-10-06 to 2026-10-07
- 📰 Michigan Republican candidate breaks with Trump on Canada tariffs 2026-10-07 to 2026-10-09
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-27 “Trump's tariffs raise prices for families while he negotiates deals to enrich himself.”
🎙️ The Adam Mockler Show 🎙️ The Kyle Kulinski Show - 2026-10-24 “Everything is bogged up across the border, making Canadian paper towels more expensive.” 🗳️ voters in The Focus Group
- 2026-10-24 “Republicans have made affordability worse through the war in Iran and inconsistent tariff policies.”
🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton - 2026-10-22 “Trump's tariffs have negatively impacted the manufacturing industry in Kansas.”
🎙️ Breaking Points 🎙️ The MeidasTouch Podcast - 2026-10-21 “Rural voters are shifting away from the GOP because of tariffs and rising costs for fertilizer and fuel.”
🎙️ Fox News Rundown - 2026-10-21 “Tariffs have contributed to goods price inflation in the United States.”
🎙️ The MeidasTouch Podcast 🎙️ 1A (WAMU/NPR) - 2026-10-09 “Millions of Americans who buy cheap drugs from Canada will soon face higher costs or lose access due to a new U.S. customs rule and import tariffs.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-07 “Trump's tariffs are failing and causing the U.S. trade deficit to increase, contrary to his claims.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-07 “Erratic decisions regarding tariffs in Washington have increased the cost of goods for citizens.”
🎙️ Politico Playbook - 2026-10-07 “Trump's trade wars have caused the price of many goods to increase.”
🎙️ The Daily (NYT) 🎙️ The Young Turks (podcast) 🎙️ The Adam Mockler Show 🎙️ The Kyle Kulinski Show - 2026-09-17 “President Donald Trump’s tariffs cost each Michigan household $5,619.” 🔎 PolitiFact
- 2026-08-15 “A Republican voter says kitchen-table issues decide their vote, and Trump's tariffs first pushed prices up.” 🗳️ voters in The Focus Group
- 2026-08-15 “Voters think tariffs are not working for them” 🗳️ voters in The Focus Group
M186 · first seen 2026-10-05 · last 2026-10-27 · what this is · how the index works