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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Ex-Presidents of the United States get state subsidies. Not so in Russia. You get no government support. — Mikhail Gorbachev 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
It's a vain hope to believe that people will voluntarily turn their back on government subsidies. — James Cook Copy Share Image
