Subsidies Quotes
83 quotes by 72 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Subsidies create more of whatever is being subsidized.
— Llewellyn Rockwell
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies.
— Michael Pollan
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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
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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
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Few tears will be shed over the demise of the East German army, but what about East Germany’s eighty symphony orchestras, bound to lose some…
— Bob Simon
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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
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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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