Benefits Quote by Valerie Jarrett

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

Subsidies create more of whatever is being subsidized.

— Llewellyn Rockwell

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

If we think that high marginal tax rates are bad because they distort incentives, the same is then true for tax subsidies.

— Richard Thaler

Subsidising inefficient businesses does not encourage them to become more competitive and means that extra money has to be taken from tax payers for…

— Jacob Rees-Mogg

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

But a tax on luxuries would no other effect than to raise their price. It would fall wholly on the consumer, and could neither…

— David Ricardo

Taking money in taxes and paying it straight back in subsidies is wrong.

— Sebastian Kurz

When a government gives special tax treatment to a few companies, that makes it hard for anyone else to compete on equal terms.

— Margrethe Vestager

A poor worker is taxed heavily to receive his own money back with a modest supplement. Surely it would be more efficient just to…

— Jacob Rees-Mogg

More taxes mean more money to spend for public welfare.

— Piyush Goyal

The Joint Committee on Taxation estimated that in 2016, the corporate income tax raised $300 billion in revenue, while what it called 'targeted subsidies'…

— James B. Stewart