Quotes About Subsidies

Not only do fossil fuel companies receive $775 billion to $1 trillion in annual global subsidies, but they pay nothing for the privilege of treating our shared atmosphere as a free waste dump—a fact that has been described by the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change as "the greatest market failure the world has ever seen." That freebie is the real distortion, that theft of the sky the real subsidy.13

research in Canada has found that an investment of $1.3 billion (the amount the Canadian government spends on subsidies to oil and gas companies) could create seventeen to twenty thousand jobs in renewable energy, public transit, or energy efficiency—six to eight times as many jobs as that money generates in the oil and gas sector.

Even climate action at home looks suspiciously like socialism to them; all the calls for high-density affordable housing and brand-new public transit are obviously just ways to give backdoor subsidies to the undeserving poor.

We'd rather pay farmers millions of dollars not to grow crops than to feed children.

It is only with government help—in the form of subsidies, restrictions on potential rivals, and the like—that business can "exploit" the public in any meaningful sense.

It's a myth that "predatory pricing" exploited American consumers and created business monopolies. ? Thanks to government subsidies, many of America's railroads were often laid on inefficient, circuitous routes. ? Rockefeller, Carnegie, Dow, and other great American businessmen did more for America than all the big-government programs combined.

It is only with government help—in the form of subsidies, restrictions on potential rivals, and the like—that business can "exploit" the public in any meaningful sense. That

People who want special taxes or subsidies for particular things seem not to understand that what they are really asking for is for the prices to misstate the relative scarcities of things and the relative values that the users of these things put on them. One

if our society decides that it no longer wishes to subsidize groups that preach homophobia and promote discrimination, the justification for continued subsidies and privileges from the government will evaporate.

Despite its professed radicalism, the Republican party had obviously become the conservative party, spokesman of vested interests and big business, defender of an elaborate system of tariffs, subsidies, currency laws, privileged banks, railroads, and corporations, a system entrenched in the law by Republicans while the voters were diverted by oratory about Reconstruction, civil rights, and Southern atrocities.

On a different plane there were the less idealistic, less publicized aims of Northern policy during the war and the period following. These aims centered in the protection of a sectional economy and numerous privileged interests, and were reflected in new statutes regarding taxes, money, tariffs, banks, land, railroads, subsidies, all placed upon the law books while the South was out of the Union.

la misma Roma no podía triunfar ninguna democracia sana con un proletariado que se corrompía diariamente en el ocio y con la percepción de subsidios.

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 study, and subsidies should focus on the subjects that matter the most - not to the students, but to everyone else.

Far from trying to rig the system, I have spent decades opposing cronyism and all political favors, including mandates, subsidies and protective tariffs - even when we benefit from them.

You can't be elected president without passing though Iowa and bowing down before corn-based ethanol, before agricultural subsidies. I mean, even McCain was a critic of ethanol, but when he got to Iowa, he was singing a different tune.

In a time of serious budget deficits, immense war costs and a sluggish economy, we cannot afford to grant such outlandish subsidies to some of our Nations largest corporations.

All forms of free boil down to variations of the same thing: shifting money around from product to product, person to person, between now and later, or into nonmonetary markets and back out again. Economists call these "cross-subsidies.

Cross-subsidies are the essence of the phrase "there's no such thing as a free lunch." That means that one way or another the food must be paid for, if not by you directly then by someone else in whose interest it is to give you free food.

Bajo un sistema de precios, la gente se raciona a sí misma. El racionamiento de recursos a través de los precios limita la cantidad que cada individuo puede tomar de la producción de otros a la productividad que cada individuo ha creado por sí mismo para otros, y que por lo tanto se ha ganado en calidad de ingreso. Los controles de precios, subvenciones y otros sustitutos a la asignación de precios, reducen los incentivos para el autorracionamiento.

People who want special taxes or subsidies for particular things seem not to understand that what they are really asking for is for prices to misstate the relative scarcities of things and the relative values that the users of these things put on them. . . Making anything artificially cheap usually means that it will be wasted.

Marty Feldstein, who explained clearly how America's trade deficit came about. He said: "foreign import barriers and exports subsidies are not the reason for the US trade deficit… the real reason is that Americans are spending more than they produce…

Disguising this edifying process in the United States are the handi-capitalists in nominally "private" institutions – from Wall Street money-shufflers and government-guaranteed mortgage hustlers to corn-state ethanol farmers and Silicon Valley solar shills – that are dependent on public handouts and mandates for their success.

One of the ugly secrets of the renewable-energy industry is that its products make no economic sense unless they are highly subsidized.

Subsidies and bailouts cannot compensate for uncertain or permanently diminished market access.