Bestow Quote by Charles Koch

Giving subsidies is a two-edged sword. Once you give it, it's very hard to take away subsidies. There's a political cost to taking away…

— Najib Razak

Government-to-government foreign aid promotes statism, centralized planning, socialism, dependence, pauperization, inefficiency, and waste. It prolongs the poverty it is designed to cure. Voluntary private…

— Henry Hazlitt

Instead of taxing rich people, governments borrow from them, and pay them interest for the privilege.

— Doug Henwood

When the government makes loans or subsidies to business, what it does is to tax successful private business in order to support unsuccessful private…

— Henry Hazlitt

We've seen the government give out subsidies to companies, those companies turn around and use it for executive bonuses.

— Andrew Scheer

Political parties usually accept funding from large industrialists and are then obliged to bow down to the demands of these individuals. When the government…

— Atishi

It is government policy to phase out subsidies to nationalised industries. In line with this, the government hopes that the coal industry will be…

— Tony Benn

While I am a fervent believer in free markets and limited government, there are rare instances in which government involvement is necessary.

— Steve Largent

Well-designed subsidies help the poor make the best of whatever opportunities they have; poorly designed ones either do very little or actually make things…

— Abhijit Banerjee

In a time of serious budget deficits, immense war costs and a sluggish economy, we cannot afford to grant such outlandish subsidies to some…

— Ron Kind

Far too many businesses have been all too eager to lobby for maintaining and increasing subsidies and mandates paid by taxpayers and consumers. This…

— Charles Koch

The other General Welfare Clause is in the first of the authorities given to the Congress and it's not a grant, it's a restriction.…

— Andrew Napolitano