Coercion Quote by Murray Rothbard

Subsidies create more of whatever is being subsidized.

— Llewellyn Rockwell

When we give a subsidy, the benefits to the public ought to exceed the benefits to the company. When it doesn't, that's our definition…

— John Kasich

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

Government subsidies can be critically analyzed according to a simple principle: You are smarter than the government, so when the government pays you to…

— P. J. O'Rourke

When consumers do not take full advantage of efficiency gains, it is because they are weighing other factors that influence their decision making. When…

— Gina McCarthy

When you compare the relatively modest tax that will ensue from prohibiting companies from receiving a subsidy and deducting that subsidy, the benefits dramatically…

— Valerie Jarrett

“Since production must always precede predation, the free market is anterior to the State. The State has never been created by a “social contract”;…

— Murray N. Rothbard

Subsidies have changed the way the nation behaves.

— James Cook

For as long as the products of our labor and the rewards of our care, can properly be called our own, so long it…

— John Dickinson

Procurement is a major technique of state subsidy.

— Noam Chomsky

The thing about markets, and I think the thing people don't understand about that, is markets are not kind, but they're very efficient. So…

— Randy Neugebauer

In the old world that is passing, in the new world that is coming, national efficiency has been and will be a controlling factor…

— Gifford Pinchot