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Subsidies have changed the way the nation behaves.
Procurement is a major technique of state subsidy.
Subsidies create more of whatever is being subsidized.
Subsidies are a shell game, not a net addition to national wealth.
Government does the least good and the most harm through subsidies.
I am a free market Republican. I am against subsidies, in most cases.
Private charity discourages poverty while public subsidies encourage it.
Taking money in taxes and paying it straight back in subsidies is wrong.
I promised to have no partisan affiliation and no subsidy except advertising.
Subsidies are hugely important; they represent America's de facto energy policy.
If Federal Reserve loans are subsidies, it doesn't show up in the federal budget.
The people who deserve and need subsidies are those who are on average incomes and less.
I don't owe my success to state subsidies but to a faithful public which has sustained me.
Subsidies and bailouts cannot compensate for uncertain or permanently diminished market access.
Fossil fuel subsidies are a hand brake as we drive along the road to a sustainable energy future.
The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies.
Our existing media system today is the direct result of government laws and subsidies that created it.
Just 8% of the $409bn spent on fossil-fuel subsidies in 2010 went to the poorest 20% of the population.
Ex-Presidents of the United States get state subsidies. Not so in Russia. You get no government support.
The burden of higher cost electricity and benefits of renewable energy subsidies fall unevenly on Californians.
My gut tells me that the Supreme Court will rule the subsidies to be illegal, and therefore, Obamacare will fail.
Rich people who own mansions on the beach shouldn't get federal subsidies. If you want to stay there, take the risk.
I'm ashamed that Congress finds billions for pork-barrel subsidies but fails to find money for veterans' health care.
We've seen the government give out subsidies to companies, those companies turn around and use it for executive bonuses.
If we think that high marginal tax rates are bad because they distort incentives, the same is then true for tax subsidies.
The government only gives subsidies for nitrogenous fertilisers. With the result, farmers do not apply balanced fertilisers.
We cannot let Obamacare expand geographically by setting up state exchanges, nor can we extend Obamacare's unlawful subsidies.
If we can afford food stamps and housing subsidies, why not gun stamps to help urban citizens survive the next Islamist assault?
From the beginning of time, business has cozied up to government and gotten restrictions on competition and subsidies and stuff.
Eventually, the economy will work well when you reduce subsidies. People have got used to getting some handouts from governments.
Insurance companies, drug companies are going to have to be ponying up, partly because right now they're receiving huge subsidies.
Most of the men and women who vote in Congress each year to continue subsidies have taken campaign donations from big energy companies.
Government subsidies to elite private universities take the form of tax deductions for people who make charitable contributions to them.
I love when problems have simple solutions. Cold medicine. Umbrellas. Condoms. Tax incentives & subsidies attracting favored industries.
It is righteous to receive state subsidies to make films that criticise the state - I want Japanese people to accept such European values.
My house is solar powered. I tell Republicans, 'You can hate the subsidies - I hate the subsidies, too - but you can't hate solar panels.'
The government should move towards supporting aspirations and not entitlement. Subsidies supporting non-productive growth should be reduced.
Far too many businesses have been all too eager to lobby for maintaining and increasing subsidies and mandates paid by taxpayers and consumers.
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 subsidies.
The corporations who invest in lobbyists, it pays in terms of tax loopholes, tax subsidies, all the rest. It pays. Clearly, the money has a big effect.
We've seen filibusters to block judicial nominations, jobs bills, political transparency, ending Big Oil subsidies - you name it, there's been a filibuster.
The U.S. and Iraq will work together next year to shift Iraqi resources from unproductive subsidies to productive uses that enable Iraqis to earn livelihoods.
Rich country protectionism - barriers, subsidies and support - mean that the world supply of agricultural goods is artificially increased and world prices depressed.
As the contest proceeded, public interest increased and the entire country watched to see which company would win the big government subsidies through the mountains.
I'm a liberal - I believe in subsidies for public goods and in regulations to curb harmful externalities, but neither of those things exist when it comes to parking.
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.
The whole tax code should be looked at, all the way from farm subsidies to carried interest to - to corporate loopholes, because we really need to raise more revenue.
Capital is taxed much less than labour; subsidies going to capital, the rich, and middle-income earners greatly exceed the benefits going to the precariat and underclass.
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 worse for them.
When the subsidies are going out there to fund arts, I'd like to see jazz given a better shake of the dice. It attracts as many people as opera does, but not the subsidies.