Subsidies Quotes

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Thanks to farm subsidies, the fine collaboration between agribusiness and Congress, soy, corn and cattle became king. And chicken soon joined them on the throne.… — Mark Bittman
If you care about your personal liberty, you'll be cautious when you feel comfortable, blame all the illegal immigrants for everything. What you need to… — Ron Paul
The Senate is now considering increasing government subsidies for corn growers to produce more ethanol. If we produce enough ethanol we can postpone our next… — Jay Leno
If the only motive was to help people who could not afford education, advocates of government involvement would have simply proposed tuition subsidies. — Milton Friedman
Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the entry of competitors… — Ayn Rand
The U.S. and Iraq will work together next year to shift Iraqi resources from unproductive subsidies to productive uses that enable Iraqis to earn livelihoods. — Zalmay Khalilzad
Whenever there is some trouble in any area of the economy, the simplest solution to many people is "Let the government fix it." Yet ...… — Lawrence Fertig
Subsidies create more of whatever is being subsidized. — Llewellyn Rockwell
We need to reduce our dependence on foreign oil by ending the subsidies for oil companies, and doubling down on clean energy that generates jobs… — Barack Obama
As for cages themselves, an ordinary citizen who kept dogs in similar conditions for their entire lives would risk prosecution for cruelty. A pig producer… — Peter Singer
We right now give $15 billion every year as subsidies to private insurers under the Medicare system. Doesn't work any better through the private insurers.… — Barack Obama
It is government policy to phase out subsidies to nationalised industries. In line with this, the government hopes that the coal industry will be able… — Tony Benn
The corporation is the dominant and dominating institution of our time. Governments identify growth and development with commercial corporations and shower them with subsidies, tax… — Eric Kierans
Governments first of all have been able to amass, through the taxation process, large sums of capital which they have redistributed to persons or groups,… — Immanuel Wallerstein
The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies. — Michael Pollan
In a general sense, all contributions imposed by the government upon individuals for the service of the state, are called taxes, by whatever name they… — Joseph Story
A genuine free enterprise system, without state-enforced artificial scarcities, artificial property rights or subsidies, would be like dynamite at the foundations of corporate power. — Kevin Carson
Few tears will be shed over the demise of the East German army, but what about East Germanyâ€™s eighty symphony orchestras, bound to lose some… — Bob Simon
Policy, for the most part, has been made by white people in America, not by people of color. Â And they have tended to take… — Maxine Waters
I think when ordinary working people come home, turn on the TV and see a gala of a bunch of people at, you know, a… — Stephen Harper

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