Fossil fuel subsidies are a hand brake as we drive along the road to a sustainable energy future. — Fatih Birol Copy Share Image
Private charity discourages poverty while public subsidies encourage it. — James Cook Copy Share Image
The people who deserve and need subsidies are those who are on average incomes and less. — Mohammad bin Salman Copy Share Image
Today, India's cooking gas subsidy is the world's largest Cash Transfer Programme. — Narendra Modi 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
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
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
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
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
I'm ashamed that Congress finds billions for pork-barrel subsidies but fails to find money for veterans' health care. — John McCain Copy Share Image
College has been oversold. It has been oversold to students who end up dropping out or graduating with degrees that don't help… — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image
The army of relief and other subsidy recipients will continue to grow, and the solvency of the government will become increasingly un… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Corn is already the most subsidized crop in America, raking in a total of $51 billion in federal handouts between 1995 and… — Jeff Goodell 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
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
Do you realize that $150 billion of our tax money is given to the corporations, unions and wealthy people for tax breaks,… — Doris "Granny D" Haddock Copy Share Image
While big business gain subsidies and political access, small businesses drown in red tape, and individuals now risk being classified as terrorists… — Zac Goldsmith 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
“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
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
Net result [of the Dept. of Agriculture's Payment in Kind - PIK - program]: total farm income, now expected to be around… — Daniel Seligman 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
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
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
“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
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
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
We need to reduce our dependence on foreign oil by ending the subsidies for oil companies, and doubling down on clean energy… — Barack Obama 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
We've seen filibusters to block judicial nominations, jobs bills, political transparency, ending Big Oil subsidies - you name it, there's been a… — Elizabeth Warren 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 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
In order to restore America's manufacturing, energy, and agricultural independence, we must first establish guardrails on how taxpayer subsidies can be spent. — John E. James 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
Ex-Presidents of the United States get state subsidies. Not so in Russia. You get no government support. — Mikhail Gorbachev 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
![“Net result [of the Dept. of Agriculture's Payment in Kind - PIK - program]: total farm income, now expected to be around $25 billion, this fiscal year, will exceed total federal subsidies by only a couple of billion. You could argue that those fellows out there on the fruited plain are in effect…” quote by Daniel Seligman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b77/daniel-seligman-65571_administration_net-result-of-the-dept-of-agriculture-s_1757219.jpg)
