Businessmen are notable for a peculiarly stalwart character, which enables them to enjoy without loss of self-reliance the benefits of tariffs, franchises,… — Herbert J. Muller Copy Share Image
I'm a liberal - I believe in subsidies for public goods and in regulations to curb harmful externalities, but neither of those… — Matthew Yglesias Copy Share Image
A genuine free enterprise system, without state-enforced artificial scarcities, artificial property rights or subsidies, would be like dynamite at the foundations of… — Kevin Carson Copy Share Image
The minute you hear subsidies, I don't care what, if it's health care, buying cars, the minute you hear subsidies, you have… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The ultimate objective of subsidies should be to empower the poor, to break the cycle of poverty, and become foot-soldiers in our… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
We'll reduce taxpayer subsidies to prescription drug companies and ask more from the wealthiest seniors. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Haitian rice farmers are quite efficient, but they can't compete with U.S. agribusiness that relies on a huge government subsidy, thanks to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If we think that high marginal tax rates are bad because they distort incentives, the same is then true for tax subsidies. — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
Policy, for the most part, has been made by white people in America, not by people of color. And they have tended… — Maxine Waters Copy Share Image
Government mandates, incidentally, are likely to distort rather than solve the problem of finding a market. I would, therefore, force my organization… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
As for cages themselves, an ordinary citizen who kept dogs in similar conditions for their entire lives would risk prosecution for cruelty.… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
None of the people who wrote Obamacare want anything to do with it. None of the people responsible for Obamacare can afford… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Most of [ the Negro leaders] who - who, whose existence or whose position of leadership depends upon the - on the… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
For more than 220 years - from the 1620s to the 1840s - most American schooling was independent of government control, subsidy,… — Marshall Fritz Copy Share Image
Government subsidies can be critically analyzed according to a simple principle: You are smarter than the government, so when the government pays… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
President Obama, through health care reform, strengthened Medicare. How did he do that? Well, he found savings by cutting subsidies to insurance… — Stephanie Cutter Copy Share Image
“the Bush energy act contained some $6 billion in oil and gas subsidies and $9 billion in coal subsidies. The Kochs routinely… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
Corn is already the most subsidized crop in America, raking in a total of $51 billion in federal handouts between 1995 and… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
The army of relief and other subsidy recipients will continue to grow, and the solvency of the government will become increasingly un… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
College has been oversold. It has been oversold to students who end up dropping out or graduating with degrees that don't help… — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image
While Donald Trump was busy with his accountants trying to figure out how to keep living like a billionaire, and all the… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The United States and Turkey are the only two countries that don't have some kind of subsidy for the Arts. The whole… — Alex North Copy Share Image
“Cross-subsidies are the essence of the phrase “there’s no such thing as a free lunch.” That means that one way or another… — Chris Anderson Copy Share Image
You've got to move us to these technologies that allow us to get to the clean-energy source. If we can't work to… — Lisa Murkowski Copy Share Image
Cheap food is an illusion. There is no such thing as cheap food. The real cost of the food is paid somewhere.… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Subsidies and grants throw off the natural market signals that are supposed to allow students to make informed decisions on the true… — Charlie Kirk Copy Share Image
By admitting they have no contingency plan to assist the millions that may lose subsidies, the administration confirms how the misguided law… — Orrin Hatch Copy Share Image
In other words, the hidden subsidies [designed to help individuals seeking college degrees] are not helping those who most need help in… — Sarah Jaffe Copy Share Image
If candidates spend money on ads and other political speech and their opponents are rewarded with government handouts to attack them, that… — Bradley A. Smith Copy Share Image
Every time you cut programs, you take away a person who has a vested interest in high taxes and you put him… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
We pay a subsidy. Money coming over the border, they're - there are so many ways that Mexico makes money with us,… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
In a general sense, all contributions imposed by the government upon individuals for the service of the state, are called taxes, by… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
Christianity has sufficient inner strength to survive and flourish on its own. It does not need state subsidies, nor state privileges, nor… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
If a market exists for low-paid work, then we should think about how we can make this type of work more attractive… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
Many governments are giving subsidies to fossil fuel production and consumption that encourage greenhouse gas emissions, at the same time as they… — Jose Angel Gurria Copy Share Image
Do you realize that $150 billion of our tax money is given to the corporations, unions and wealthy people for tax breaks,… — Doris "Granny D" Haddock Copy Share Image
While big business gain subsidies and political access, small businesses drown in red tape, and individuals now risk being classified as terrorists… — Zac Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I believe that if you go and ask a chief executive of a Goldman Sachs or a BP, and they answer you… — Ian Bremmer Copy Share Image
Logging is an industry driven solely by greed. It prospers with government support and subsidies, and it is accelerating its rate of… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
The Joint Committee on Taxation estimated that in 2016, the corporate income tax raised $300 billion in revenue, while what it called… — James B. Stewart Copy Share Image