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
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
By holding down natural wage growth in labor-intensive industries, immigration serves as a subsidy for low-wage, low-productivity ways of doing business, retarding… — Mark Krikorian 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
We right now give $15 billion every year as subsidies to private insurers under the Medicare system. Doesn't work any better through… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Liberals fostered the subsidies that have converted so many citizens to helplessness. They have made high taxes and big government a way… — James Cook Copy Share Image
The Bush administration and Congressional Republicans have failed to bring up comprehensive energy reform or any piece of legislation for that matter… — Rosa DeLauro 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
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
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
The ninety-nine cent price of a fast-food hamburger simply doesn't take account of that meal's true cost--to soil, oil, public health, the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Whenever there is some trouble in any area of the economy, the simplest solution to many people is "Let the government fix… — Lawrence Fertig Copy Share Image
In reality, Republicans have long been at war with clean energy. They have ridiculed investments in solar and wind power, bashed energy-efficiency… — Jeff Goodell 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
I don't owe my success to state subsidies but to a faithful public which has sustained me. — Eric Rohmer Copy Share Image
My house is solar powered. I tell Republicans, you can hate the subsidies - I hate the subsidies, too - but you… — Thomas Massie 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
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
Every candidate running for president has got to answer the following very simple question: At a time when we need to address… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Far too many businesses have been all too eager to lobby for maintaining and increasing subsidies and mandates paid by taxpayers and… — Charles Koch 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
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
Few tears will be shed over the demise of the East German army, but what about East Germany’s eighty symphony orchestras, bound… — Bob Simon Copy Share Image
When corporations get special handouts from the government, subsidies and tax breaks, it costs you. It means you have to pay more… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
I promised to have no partisan affiliation and no subsidy except advertising. — Anonymous Copy Share Image