Quotes by Subsidies Insurance companies, drug companies are going to have to be ponying up, partly because right now they're receiving huge subsidies. Barack Obama subsidies receiving drug I promised to have no partisan affiliation and no subsidy except advertising. Benjamin Day subsidies advertising affiliation I did very much like [Barack] Obama's attack on fossil fuel subsidies for fossil fuel companies. We asked for that in demonstrations and petitions, and now we'll try to push it forward. Bill McKibben subsidies fuel trying 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 subsidies taxpayers maintaining I can understand where the oil company wants to deduct the cost of drilling a well. That's one of the tax breaks for oil companies - the subsidies - they get to deduct the cost of the well the year you drill. Dan Benishek subsidies oil years Concerning First Amendment fetishism - A federal subsidy for a photo of a crucifix suspended in a jar of urine is fine, but religious figures on stamps are offensive. Don Feder subsidies religious christian I don't owe my success to state subsidies but to a faithful public which has sustained me. Eric Rohmer subsidies faithful states Just 8% of the $409bn spent on fossil-fuel subsidies in 2010 went to the poorest 20% of the population. Fatih Birol subsidies population fuel There are five different ways you can do it. You can do it through not giving them the subsidy that we pay them. You know, we pay Mexico a subsidy. I don't know if you know. But the whole thing is ridiculous. We're paying everybody subsidy. We actually have a small portion of China where they get a subsidy from us because they haven't ended it for years. Donald Trump subsidies giving years I love when problems have simple solutions. Cold medicine. Umbrellas. Condoms. Tax incentives & subsidies attracting favored industries. Greg Fitzsimmons subsidies medicine simple Every time you cut programs, you take away a person who has a vested interest in high taxes and you put him on the tax rolls and make him a taxpayer. A farmer on subsidies is part welfare bum, whereas a free-market farmer is a small businessman with a gun. Grover Norquist subsidies cutting gun Government does the least good and the most harm through subsidies. James Cook subsidies government doe Subsidies have changed the way the nation behaves. James Cook subsidies changed way Private charity discourages poverty while public subsidies encourage it. James Cook subsidies poverty charity Lobbyists know that a 0 percent tax rate on capital income is not, in fact, the lowest possible rate. There can be negative tax rates. There can be subsidies. There can be allowances for depreciation. Lobbyists are adaptive creatures. Joel Achenbach subsidies lobbyists facts I'm ashamed that Congress finds billions for pork-barrel subsidies but fails to find money for veterans' health care. John McCain subsidies pork care Any time you read that your government is erecting tariff barriers, supporting threatened industries with subsidies, or interfering in any way with free trade between individuals or nations, you must realize that your standard of living is being lowered as a result. John Pugsley subsidies tariffs government There was nothing natural about laissez-faire; free markets could never have come into being merely by allowing things to take their course. Just as cotton manufactures were created by the help of protective tariffs, export bounties, and indirect wage subsidies, laissez-faire was enforced by the state. Karl Polanyi subsidies cotton tariffs The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. The more weapons you have, the less secure people will be. The more subsidies you have, the less self reliant people will be. Laozi subsidies self people Subsidies create more of whatever is being subsidized. Llewellyn Rockwell subsidies libertarian liberty 12»