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
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
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
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
Obamacare's not imploding. The main goal of Obamacare was two-fold. One was to cover the uninsured, of which we've covered 20 million,… — Jonathan Gruber Copy Share Image
Legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways; hence, there are an infinite number of plans for organizing it:… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
“All varieties of the producers' policy are advocated on the ground of their alleged ability to raise the party members' standard of… — Ludwig Von Mises Copy Share Image
If we can afford food stamps and housing subsidies, why not gun stamps to help urban citizens survive the next Islamist assault? — Tom Tancredo Copy Share Image
You show me a polluter, I'll show you a subsidy. I'll show you a fat cat using political clout to escape the… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
A democratic Europe of nation states could be a force for liberty, enterprise and open trade. But, if creating a United States… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Political pandering comes in all shapes and sizes, but every four years the presidential primary bring us in contact with its purest… — John Sununu Copy Share Image
Governments first of all have been able to amass, through the taxation process, large sums of capital which they have redistributed to… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
Subsidies should never be a permanent feature of any market. They should be introduced only to address market failure and they should… — Barry Gardiner Copy Share Image
Federal policy tells us to fill 50 percent of our plates with fruits and vegetables. At the same time, federal farm subsidies… — Chuck Norris Copy Share Image
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… — Najib Razak Copy Share Image
When the subsidies are going out there to fund arts, I'd like to see jazz given a better shake of the dice.… — Sebastian Coe Copy Share Image
Yes, agriculture subsidies are far too generous. They need to be reined in because they cater to special interests while distorting free… — Juan Williams Copy Share Image
The Senate is now considering increasing government subsidies for corn growers to produce more ethanol. If we produce enough ethanol we can… — Jay Leno 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
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
In order for Obamacare's cost structure to work, millions of Americans must sign up to pay inflated prices; that would help pay… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
I've been around enough to realise that there are two things that once people have them, they don't want to give up,… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
We've seen the government give out subsidies to companies, those companies turn around and use it for executive bonuses. — Andrew Scheer Copy Share Image
Do I think it would be better that people knew the atrocities that Monsanto commits or the influence of corporate money in… — Ellen Page Copy Share Image
People run away from the name subsidy. It is a subsidy. I am not afraid to call it so. It is paid… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
Most companies want free enterprise in general because that produces better goods and services and makes people's lives better, but they don't… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
Our obsessive focus on college schooling has blinded us to basic truths. College is a place, not a magic formula. It matters… — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image
Is keeping Big Oil happy with subsidies from the American people more important than addressing our deficit? Should a billionaire who makes… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Business corporations in general are not defenders of free enterprise. On the contrary, they are one of the chief sources of danger…Every… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Today, the people who would use guns to violate rights have little trouble getting them, while those who would use them to… — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
We need policy change, and the most important thing people can do is to contribute and participate in the political process. We… — Josh Fox Copy Share Image
Kelso's proposals do promise to free us from our morbid dependency on economic health through armament manufacture; they promise a way out… — Nicholas von Hoffman Copy Share Image
