Best Subsidies Sayings
83 Subsidies quotes by 71 unique authors
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The biggest and most deadly 'tax' rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits - food stamps, housing subsidies and…
— Thomas Sowell
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Political pandering comes in all shapes and sizes, but every four years the presidential primary bring us in contact with its purest form - praising…
— John Sununu
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Corporations do not pay taxes, they collect them, passing the burden to consumers as a cost of production. And corporate taxation is a feast of…
— George Will
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The American Dream, coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else, has kept the poor huddled masses…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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The ninety-nine cent price of a fast-food hamburger simply doesn't take account of that meal's true cost--to soil, oil, public health, the public purse, etc.,…
— Michael Pollan
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Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection,…
— Frederic Bastiat
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When the government makes loans or subsidies to business, what it does is to tax successful private business in order to support unsuccessful private business.
— Henry Hazlitt
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To the people who are upset about their hard-earned tax money going to things they don’t like: welcome to the f*cking club. Reimburse me for…
— Jon Stewart
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The nature of the economic system should be a matter for public choice, and free market capitalism should not be accepted without any discussion of…
— Tony Benn
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Do you realize that $150 billion of our tax money is given to the corporations, unions and wealthy people for tax breaks, special subsidies and…
— Doris "Granny D" Haddock
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Far too many businesses have been all too eager to lobby for maintaining and increasing subsidies and mandates paid by taxpayers and consumers.
— Charles Koch
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We need policy change, and the most important thing people can do is to contribute and participate in the political process. We have to vote…
— Josh Fox
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Our obsessive focus on college schooling has blinded us to basic truths. College is a place, not a magic formula. It matters what subjects students…
— Alex Tabarrok
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I am a free market Republican. I am against subsidies, in most cases.
— Rudy Giuliani
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Ex-Presidents of the United States get state subsidies. Not so in Russia. You get no government support.
— Mikhail Gorbachev
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For too long, the system has been biased in favor of oil and gas developers: sweetheart lease deals, generous subsidies and a regulatory process so…
— Chellie Pingree
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Most of the men and women who vote in Congress each year to continue subsidies have taken campaign donations from big energy companies.
— Bill McKibben
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Far from trying to rig the system, I have spent decades opposing cronyism and all political favors, including mandates, subsidies and protective tariffs - even…
— Charles Koch
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Subsidies and mandates are just two of the privileges that government can bestow on politically connected friends. Others include grants, loans, tax credits, favorable regulations,…
— Charles Koch
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From the beginning of time, business has cozied up to government and gotten restrictions on competition and subsidies and stuff.
— Charles Koch
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Government subsidies to elite private universities take the form of tax deductions for people who make charitable contributions to them.
— Robert Reich
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The whole tax code should be looked at, all the way from farm subsidies to carried interest to - to corporate loopholes, because we really…
— Stephen Pagliuca
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Logging is an industry driven solely by greed. It prospers with government support and subsidies, and it is accelerating its rate of destruction, so that…
— Richard Flanagan
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As the contest proceeded, public interest increased and the entire country watched to see which company would win the big government subsidies through the mountains.
— John Moody
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That means following a very restrictive fiscal and monetary policy which will squeeze the monopolies and cut their subsidies. On the micro level we will…
— Vaclav Klaus
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