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• We can applaud the state lottery as a public subsidy of intelligence, for it yields public income that is calculated to lighten the tax burden of us prudent abstainers at the expense of the benighted masses of wishful thinkers.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Yield, Income, Prudent

  1987 Quiddities,'Gambling'.

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• The corporation is the dominant and dominating institution of our time. Governments identify growth and development with commercial corporations and shower them with subsidies, tax privileges, and appropriate labour legislation and market support to attract a commitment and investment.

  Eric Kierans

  Commitment, Government, Support

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• I believe that if you go and ask a chief executive of a Goldman Sachs or a BP, and they answer you honestly they want monopolies, they want government subsidies, they want preferences - they're not interested in free markets.

  Ian Bremmer

  Believe, Government, Answers

  "The West Should Fear the Growth of State Capitalism". Interview with James Quinn, www.telegraph.co.uk. July 10, 2010.

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• Few tears will be shed over the demise of the East German army, but what about East Germany’s eighty symphony orchestras, bound to lose some subsidies? Or the whole East German system, which covered everyone in a security blanket from day care to health care, from housing to education? Some people are beginning to express, if ever so slightly, nostalgia for that Berlin Wall.

  Bob Simon

  Wall, Army, Day Care

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• It is government policy to phase out subsidies to nationalised industries. In line with this, the government hopes that the coal industry will be able to operate without the need for assistance apart from social grants.

  Tony Benn

  Government, Needs, Coal

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• Political pandering comes in all shapes and sizes, but every four years the presidential primary bring us in contact with its purest form - praising ethanol subsidies amid the corn fields of Iowa.

  John Sununu

  Years, Iowa, Political

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• Corporations do not pay taxes, they collect them, passing the burden to consumers as a cost of production. And corporate taxation is a feast of rent-seeking - a cornucopia of credits, exemptions and other subsidies conferred by the political class on favored, and grateful, corporations.

  George Will

  Grateful, Class, Political

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• The American Dream, coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else, has kept the poor huddled masses from rising up.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Dream, Government, Somewhere Else

  "America, land of the free to be stupid" by Elizabeth Wurtzel, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2010.

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• The ninety-nine cent price of a fast-food hamburger simply doesn't take account of that meal's true cost--to soil, oil, public health, the public purse, etc., costs which are never charged directly to the consumer but, indirectly and invisibly, to the taxpayer (in the form of subsidies), the health care system (in the form of food-borne illnesses and obesity), and the environment (in the form of pollution), not to mention the welfare of the workers in the feedlot and the slaughterhouse and the welfare of the animals themselves.

  Michael Pollan

  Animal, Ninety Nine, Oil

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• The Senate is now considering increasing government subsidies for corn growers to produce more ethanol. If we produce enough ethanol we can postpone our next invasion of a Middle Eastern country for two to three years.

  Jay Leno

  Country, Fun, Government

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• Subsidies create more of whatever is being subsidized.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Liberty, Libertarian

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• We need to reduce our dependence on foreign oil by ending the subsidies for oil companies, and doubling down on clean energy that generates jobs and strengthens our security.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Oil, Energy

  Barack Obama's speech on the Budget in Northern Virginia dale, Virginia, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. February 13, 2012.

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• The median family of four ... paid $4,722 in federal taxes last year. That's enough to pay for a new curtain for the secretary of commerce's office, to bribe a farmer not to plant 38 acres with corn ... seven weeks of salary for a Customs man assigned to save us from the terror of high-quality, low priced foreign TV sets, or the subsidy on 6,000 bushels of wheat to prop up the Soviet regime. Surely civilization would collapse without such essential services.

  Alan Bock

  Men, Years, Civilization

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• Energy markets can be thought of as suffering from appendicitis due to fossil fuel subsidies. They need to be removed for a healthy energy economy.

  Fatih Birol

  Business, Healthy, Suffering

  "Phasing out fossil fuel subsidies 'could provide half of global carbon target'" by Duncan Clark, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2012.

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• Christianity has sufficient inner strength to survive and flourish on its own. It does not need state subsidies, nor state privileges, nor state prestige. The more it obtains state support the greater it curtails human freedom.

  William O. Douglas

  Support, Inner Strength, Atheism

  "The Bible and the Schools". Book by William O. Douglas, 1966.

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• I am a free market Republican. I am against subsidies, in most cases.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Republican, Cases, Free Market

  Interview with Peter Cook, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 14, 2007.

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• 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

  Cotton, Tariffs, Laissez Faire

  Karl Polanyi (1957). “The Great Transformation”, Beacon Pr

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• Kelso's proposals do promise to free us from our morbid dependency on economic health through armament manufacture; they promise a way out of the welfare mess, out of foodstamps and ship subsidies, out of perpetual inflation, and they suggest a means of doing these things without being too disruptive of the wealth of five percent of the population who own the rest of us.

  Nicholas von Hoffman

  Wisdom, Mean, Promise

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• Businessmen are notable for a peculiarly stalwart character, which enables them to enjoy without loss of self-reliance the benefits of tariffs, franchises, and even outright government subsidies.

  Herbert J. Muller

  Business, Character, Loss

  Herbert J. Muller (1952). “the Uses of the Past”

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• Most of the men and women who vote in Congress each year to continue subsidies have taken campaign donations from big energy companies.

  Bill McKibben

  Taken, Men, Years

  "Payola for the Most Profitable Corporations in History" by Bill McKibben, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 5, 2012.

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• Many governments are giving subsidies to fossil fuel production and consumption that encourage greenhouse gas emissions, at the same time as they are spending on projects to promote clean energy. This is a wasteful use of scarce budget resources.

  Jose Angel Gurria

  Government, Giving, Fossils

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• Net result [of the Dept. of Agriculture's Payment in Kind - PIK - program]: total farm income, now expected to be around $25 billion, this fiscal year, will exceed total federal subsidies by only a couple of billion. You could argue that those fellows out there on the fruited plain are in effect working for the federal government and that, therefore, the U.S. now has socialized agriculture under the Reagan Administration. Rich, eh?

  Daniel Seligman

  Couple, Years, Agriculture

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• 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.

  Ron Kind

  War, Cost, Corporations

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• Procurement is a major technique of state subsidy.

  Noam Chomsky

  Technique, States, Procurement

  "Chomsky: "The Business Elites ... Are Instinctive Marxists"". Interview with Keane Bhatt, www.truth-out.org. November 19, 2010.

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• We pay a subsidy. Money coming over the border, they're - there are so many ways that Mexico makes money with us, Bob. There are so many different ways, five in particular, that we will take it out of there.

  Donald Trump

  Way, Different, Borders

  "The 9 toughest media interviews for Donald Trump". Interview with Bob Woodward, "Bob Woodward presses Trump on Mexico paying for border wall" (March 9, 20016), www.washingtonpost.com. May 9, 2016.

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