The U.S. fiscal union has worked, in no small part, by enabling subsidies to the Mississippis without requiring the approval of the… — Austan Goolsbee Copy Share Image
Most of the men and women who vote in Congress each year to continue subsidies have taken campaign donations from big energy… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Just 8% of the $409bn spent on fossil-fuel subsidies in 2010 went to the poorest 20% of the population. — Fatih Birol 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
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 whole tax code should be looked at, all the way from farm subsidies to carried interest to - to corporate loopholes,… — Stephen Pagliuca Copy Share Image
“You ever notice how the folks who talk loudest about small government always seem to live in the states with the biggest… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. The more weapons you have, the less secure people will be.… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Last night, I had a telephone townhall for my constituents back in Vermont, and we had 11,500 people on it. And I… — Peter Welch Copy Share Image
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
Sure, food stamps are occasionally misused, but anyone familiar with business knows that the abuse of food subsidies is far greater in… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
Annual drug deaths: tobacco: 395,000, alcohol: 125,000, 'legal' drugs: 38,000, illegal drug overdoses: 5,200, marijuana: 0. Considering government subsidies of tobacco, just… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
If the members of parliament no longer consider themselves mandatories of the taxpayers but deputies of those receiving salaries, wages, subsidies, doles,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Any time you read that your government is erecting tariff barriers, supporting threatened industries with subsidies, or interfering in any way with… — John Pugsley Copy Share Image
You show me pollution and I will show you people who are not paying their own way, people who are stealing from… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
We can applaud the state lottery as a public subsidy of intelligence, for it yields public income that is calculated to lighten… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
We want a comprehensive package that covers export subsidies, tariffs and overall levels of support. British Prime Minister Tony Blair is making… — Kevin Watkins 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
Policy, for the most part, has been made by white people in America, not by people of color. And they have tended… — Maxine Waters 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
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
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
Most of [ the Negro leaders] who - who, whose existence or whose position of leadership depends upon the - on the… — Malcolm X 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
None of the people who wrote Obamacare want anything to do with it. None of the people responsible for Obamacare can afford… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I don't mind payin' for the police and for streets and sanitation, or road work, bridges, trains, food subsidies and welfare. But… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the… — Ayn Rand 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
...free enterprise, [is] a term that refers, in practice, to a system of public subsidy and private profit, with massive government intervention… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think when ordinary working people come home, turn on the TV and see a gala of a bunch of people at,… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
If you care about your personal liberty, you'll be cautious when you feel comfortable, blame all the illegal immigrants for everything. What… — Ron Paul 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
Thanks to farm subsidies, the fine collaboration between agribusiness and Congress, soy, corn and cattle became king. And chicken soon joined them… — Mark Bittman 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
For too long, the system has been biased in favor of oil and gas developers: sweetheart lease deals, generous subsidies and a… — Chellie Pingree 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
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
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
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
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
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