Best Quote by Abhijit Banerjee

We often hear a lot about subsidies, because it's often the powerful talking about the poor; the poor don't have enough voice to question…

— Kofi Annan

The people who deserve and need subsidies are those who are on average incomes and less.

— Mohammad bin Salman

However imperfectly, subsidies for the poor do actually reduce hunger, ease suffering and create opportunity, while subsidies for the rich result in more private…

— Nicholas Kristof

Government does the least good and the most harm through subsidies.

— James Cook

Giving subsidies is a two-edged sword. Once you give it, it's very hard to take away subsidies. There's a political cost to taking away…

— Najib Razak

Subsidies create more of whatever is being subsidized.

— Llewellyn Rockwell

When we give a subsidy, the benefits to the public ought to exceed the benefits to the company. When it doesn't, that's our definition…

— John Kasich

When you compare the relatively modest tax that will ensue from prohibiting companies from receiving a subsidy and deducting that subsidy, the benefits dramatically…

— Valerie Jarrett

The ultimate objective of subsidies should be to empower the poor, to break the cycle of poverty, and become foot-soldiers in our war on…

— Narendra Modi

Eventually, the economy will work well when you reduce subsidies. People have got used to getting some handouts from governments.

— Subhash Chandra

Government subsidies can be critically analyzed according to a simple principle: You are smarter than the government, so when the government pays you to…

— P. J. O'Rourke

This welfare for wealthy companies wastes taxpayer dollars, harms the environment, and makes a mockery of the recent reductions in federal social spending programs.

— Ralph Nader