Subsidies Quotes - Page 5

• Do I think it would be better that people knew the atrocities that Monsanto commits or the influence of corporate money in government or government subsidies for our current food system that's a disaster and not sustainable? Yes. That would be really great, but a lot of that information unless you look for it, it's not available to you because that's not the discussion that's happening on mainstream news.

  Ellen Page

  Thinking, Government, People

  Source: www.shockya.com

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• Insurance companies, drug companies are going to have to be ponying up, partly because right now they're receiving huge subsidies.

  Barack Obama

  Drug, Receiving, Insurance Companies

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• 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

  Years, Giving, Pay

  "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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• While Donald Trump was busy with his accountants trying to figure out how to keep living like a billionaire, and all the while he was using his political connections to collect hundreds of millions of dollars in government subsidies and extra tax breaks for his companies. In other words, Trump was taking from America with both hands, and leaving the rest of us with the bill.

  Hillary Clinton

  America, Government, Hands

  Source: time.com

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• 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

  Trying, Fuel, Fossils

  Source: www.wolverinefarm.org

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• Most companies want free enterprise in general because that produces better goods and services and makes people's lives better, but they don't want it in their business. They want protection from competition, they want subsidies, they want the government to pick winners and losers, and they want to be picked as winners, and that's what we're opposing, and that's what drives my whole efforts in policy, and in the political arena.

  Charles Koch

  Government, People, Effort

  "Full interview: Charles Koch". "Corner Office" with Kai Ryssdal, www.marketplace.org. October 21, 2015.

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• Poland does not want to remain a net recipient of EU subsidies forever. On the contrary: we want the right to develop in a fair market, and by this right, we want to one day catch up with Germany in terms of welfare and economic power. This will not take 100 years! And then many Poles who emigrated will be able to return home.

  Jaroslaw Kaczynski

  Home, Years, Forever

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• There's a long history in the Middle East of "bread intifadas," starting with 1977 in Egypt, when Anwar Sadat tried to lift bread subsidies. People rebelled and poured into Tahrir Square, shouting slogans against the government just like they did earlier this year. Sadat learned his lesson and kept bread subsidies in place, and so did a host of other Middle Eastern dictators - many of whom were propped up for years by the West, partly through subsidized American wheat.

  Annia Ciezadlo

  Government, Egypt, Years

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• 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

  Facts, Lobbyists, Negative

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• None of the people who wrote Obamacare want anything to do with it. None of the people responsible for Obamacare can afford it. They all want subsidies. None of the people that gave us Obamacare have any desire to actually go to HealthCare.gov and sign up. That's for you and me to have to do.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Obamacare, People, Desire

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• I'm ashamed that Congress finds billions for pork-barrel subsidies but fails to find money for veterans' health care.

  John McCain

  Pork, Care, Veteran

  "McCain picks up Thompson endorsement". www.cnn.com. August 18, 1999.

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• Most of [ the Negro leaders] who - who, whose existence or whose position of leadership depends upon the - on the subsidy or crumbs for - the crumbs from the white man's table, will only say what that white man wants to hear. When they get behind the door they talk a different language.

  Malcolm X

  Men, Doors, White Man

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• When corporations get special handouts from the government, subsidies and tax breaks, it costs you. It means you have to pay more in taxes to make up for these hidden expenses, and government has less money for good schools and roads, Medicare and national defense and everything else you need.

  Robert Reich

  School, Mean, Government

  "Ten Ideas to Save the Economy #6: End Corporate Welfare Now" by Robert Reich, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 26, 2015.

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• Renewable energy fits well into the conservative mindset by allowing competition into the energy markets so that consumers have choice. The system as it is, with big utilities monopolizing the energy playing field or fossil fuel energy being given massive subsidies so that they are on a kind of corporate welfare, is the antithesis of conservative principles.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Choices, Competition, Fuel

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• If you get a job or promotion because of your race or gender, it is no different than a subsidy. You get something you didn't earn, 'something for nothing.'

  James Cook

  Jobs, Race, Different

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• These are the rules of big business. They have superseded the teachings of our parents and are reducible to a simple maxim: Get a monopoly; let Society work for you; and remember that the best of all business is politics, for a legislative grant, franchise, subsidy or tax exemption is worth more than a Kim-berly or Comstock lode, since it does not require any labor, either mental or physical, for its exploitation.

  Frederic C. Howe

  Teaching, Simple, Parent

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• The army of relief and other subsidy recipients will continue to grow, and the solvency of the government will become increasingly un tenable, as long as part of the population can vote to force the other part to support it.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Army, Government, Long

  Henry Hazlitt (1971). “Man Vs. the Welfare State”, p.219, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Today, India's cooking gas subsidy is the world's largest Cash Transfer Programme.

  Narendra Modi

  Cooking, India, World

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• We need to cut subsidy leakages, not subsidies themselves.

  Narendra Modi

  Cutting, India, Needs

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• 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.

  John Moody

  Country, Winning, Government

  John Moody (1921). “The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States”

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• 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

  Oil, Years, Want

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• If climate change issues are not adequately addressed—if we keep running those nice energy subsidies, if the price on carbon is not adequately set, if policymakers don’t have it on their radar screens—then financial stability in the medium and long-term is clearly at stake.

  Christine Lagarde

  Running, Nice, Issues

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• I think when ordinary working people come home, turn on the TV and see a gala of a bunch of people at, you know, a rich gala all subsidized by taxpayers claiming their subsidies aren't high enough, when they know those subsidies have actually gone up - I'm not sure that's something that resonates with ordinary people.

  Stephen Harper

  Home, Thinking, People

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• Policy, for the most part, has been made by white people in America, not by people of color. And they have tended to take care of those things that they think are important. Whether it's their agricultural subsidies, or other kinds of expenditures that are certainly not expenditures for poor people or for people of color. And so we have to band together and keep fighting back.

  Maxine Waters

  Fighting, Thinking, Color

  "Los Angeles Times Interview : Maxine Waters : Veteran Legislator Makes People Angry-but She's Never Ignored". Interview with Robert Scheer, articles.latimes.com. May 16, 1993.

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• I love when problems have simple solutions. Cold medicine. Umbrellas. Condoms. Tax incentives & subsidies attracting favored industries.

  Greg Fitzsimmons

  Simple, Medicine, Incentives

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