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
These subsidies from four European governments, which include aircraft launch assistance, capital injections, debt forgiveness, have enabled Airbus to develop and range… — Norm Dicks Copy Share Image
Corporations do not pay taxes, they collect them, passing the burden to consumers as a cost of production. And corporate taxation is… — George Will 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
Everybody says they want to have private providers and we're saying fine. Let the states negotiate on behalf of a population in… — Maria Cantwell Copy Share Image
Sheep farming is heavily subsidized in Great Britain. Without the subsidies, the green grazing in the valley of the River Exe would… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
There was nothing natural about laissez-faire; free markets could never have come into being merely by allowing things to take their course.… — Karl Polanyi 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
If climate change issues are not adequately addressed—if we keep running those nice energy subsidies, if the price on carbon is not… — Christine Lagarde Copy Share Image
While big-business leaders and firms can be highly productive, servants of consumers in a free market economy, they are also all too… — Murray Rothbard 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
We believe the Senate language provides for federal subsidies for abortions. Plus there's a language in there where you have to pay… — Bart Stupak Copy Share Image
Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
It is government policy to phase out subsidies to nationalised industries. In line with this, the government hopes that the coal industry… — Tony Benn 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
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
The collapse of the Soviet bloc ended the massive subsidies that had kept the Cuban economy afloat. The once-vaunted education and health… — Tom Gjelten Copy Share Image
In almost every enterprise, government has provided business with opportunities for private gain at public expense. Government nurtures private capital accumulation through… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
I can understand where the oil company wants to deduct the cost of drilling a well. That's one of the tax breaks… — Dan Benishek Copy Share Image
Subsidies for the oil, gas and coal industries are projected to cost taxpayers more than $135 billion in the coming decade. At… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Ex-Presidents of the United States get state subsidies. Not so in Russia. You get no government support. — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
The burden of higher cost electricity and benefits of renewable energy subsidies fall unevenly on Californians. — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
It's a vain hope to believe that people will voluntarily turn their back on government subsidies. — James Cook Copy Share Image
Our existing media system today is the direct result of government laws and subsidies that created it. — Anonymous 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
The Scots are subsidy junkies whingeing like a trampled bagpipe as they wait for their next fix of English taxpayers' money. — Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley 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
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
Concerning First Amendment fetishism - A federal subsidy for a photo of a crucifix suspended in a jar of urine is fine,… — Don Feder Copy Share Image
Government subsidies to elite private universities take the form of tax deductions for people who make charitable contributions to them. — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
The easy way to make money is to get special political privilege. From the beginning of time, business has cozied up to… — Charles Koch 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
“Most federal housing subsidies benefit families with six-figure incomes.59 If we are going to spend the bulk of our public dollars on… — Matthew Desmond 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
Subsidies and mandates are just two of the privileges that government can bestow on politically connected friends. Others include grants, loans, tax… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
It's estimated that about 30 percent of the increase in grain prices could be attributed to the decision to embrace biofuels, particularly… — Michael Pollan 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
Exxon, one of the companies that has spent tens of millions of dollars denying climate change, denying any responsibility to deal with,… — David Suzuki 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
