Subsidies and bailouts cannot compensate for uncertain or permanently diminished market access. — Ben Sasse Copy Share Image
When the government makes loans or subsidies to business, what it does is to tax successful private business in order to support… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Insurance companies, drug companies are going to have to be ponying up, partly because right now they're receiving huge subsidies. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The corporations who invest in lobbyists, it pays in terms of tax loopholes, tax subsidies, all the rest. It pays. Clearly, the… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Our farmers and ranchers have never faced as many problems as they do today with drought, range fires, high gas prices and… — Michael McCaul Copy Share Image
Far from trying to rig the system, I have spent decades opposing cronyism and all political favors, including mandates, subsidies and protective… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
If you get a job or promotion because of your race or gender, it is no different than a subsidy. You get… — James Cook Copy Share Image
Energy markets can be thought of as suffering from appendicitis due to fossil fuel subsidies. They need to be removed for a… — Fatih Birol Copy Share Image
In a time of serious budget deficits, immense war costs and a sluggish economy, we cannot afford to grant such outlandish subsidies… — Ron Kind Copy Share Image
If you care about your personal liberty, you'll be cautious when you feel comfortable, blame all the illegal immigrants for everything. What… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I think when ordinary working people come home, turn on the TV and see a gala of a bunch of people at,… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
As it is, the grotesque distortions of the global market mean that for every dollar the West dispatches to Africa in the… — Jonathan Dimbleby Copy Share Image
...free enterprise, [is] a term that refers, in practice, to a system of public subsidy and private profit, with massive government intervention… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I don't mind payin' for the police and for streets and sanitation, or road work, bridges, trains, food subsidies and welfare. But… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
Lobbyists know that a 0 percent tax rate on capital income is not, in fact, the lowest possible rate. There can be… — Joel Achenbach Copy Share Image
Sure, food stamps are occasionally misused, but anyone familiar with business knows that the abuse of food subsidies is far greater in… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
The nature of the economic system should be a matter for public choice, and free market capitalism should not be accepted without… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
There's a long history in the Middle East of "bread intifadas," starting with 1977 in Egypt, when Anwar Sadat tried to lift… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
From the beginning of time, business has cozied up to government and gotten restrictions on competition and subsidies and stuff. — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
I love when problems have simple solutions. Cold medicine. Umbrellas. Condoms. Tax incentives & subsidies attracting favored industries. — Greg Fitzsimmons Copy Share Image
We often hear a lot about subsidies, because it's often the powerful talking about the poor; the poor don't have enough voice… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
To the people who are upset about their hard-earned tax money going to things they don’t like: welcome to the f*cking club.… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Just 8% of the $409bn spent on fossil-fuel subsidies in 2010 went to the poorest 20% of the population. — Fatih Birol Copy Share Image
“You ever notice how the folks who talk loudest about small government always seem to live in the states with the biggest… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. The more weapons you have, the less secure people will be.… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The whole tax code should be looked at, all the way from farm subsidies to carried interest to - to corporate loopholes,… — Stephen Pagliuca Copy Share Image
Rich people who own mansions on the beach shouldn't get federal subsidies. If you want to stay there, take the risk — Geraldo Rivera Copy Share Image
The U.S. fiscal union has worked, in no small part, by enabling subsidies to the Mississippis without requiring the approval of the… — Austan Goolsbee Copy Share Image
Most of the men and women who vote in Congress each year to continue subsidies have taken campaign donations from big energy… — Bill McKibben 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
We'll reduce taxpayer subsidies to prescription drug companies and ask more from the wealthiest seniors. — Barack Obama 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
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
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
Jazz isn't as profitable for labels like Hip hop or Rap. Jazz needs subsidies to continue, just like European classical works of… — Jimmy Heath Copy Share Image
China's idea of fair trade is government subsidies of its textile and apparel exports to the United States, currency manipulation, and forgiveness… — Virginia Foxx Copy Share Image
It is righteous to receive state subsidies to make films that criticise the state - I want Japanese people to accept such… — Hirokazu Kore-eda Copy Share Image
The U.S. and Iraq will work together next year to shift Iraqi resources from unproductive subsidies to productive uses that enable Iraqis… — Zalmay Khalilzad Copy Share Image