A Quote by James Surowiecki

Corporate welfare isn't necessarily a bad thing.

James Surowiecki

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James Surowiecki
American - Journalist
Born: April 30, 1967

Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare.

Larry Elder

I don't know how we will ever have the moral authority to deal with social welfare if we can't deal with corporate welfare.

Jeb Hensarling

Far too many well-connected businesses are feeding at the federal trough. By addressing corporate welfare as well as other forms of welfare, we would add a whole new level of understanding to the notion of entitlement reform.

Charles Koch

A lot of the Republican rhetoric better than the Democrats'. But when they're in office, it's pretty much the same thing. It's serving their supporters, it's corporate welfare, it's cronyism which is so destructive, particularly to the disadvantaged.

Charles Koch

I really wish this wasn't a thing. But this tumor is a thing. Even though it's not what I would have chosen for myself, that doesn't necessarily mean it has to be all bad. What I keep trying to remind myself is this is one of those things that looks like a really bad thing on the outside but I know too little about life to be sure.

Simone Giertz

If you didn't auction the [CO2] permits, it would represent the largest corporate welfare program that has ever been enacted in the history of the United States. All of the evidence is that what would occur is that corporate profits would increase by approximately the value of the permits.

Peter R. Orszag

I'm against corporate welfare.

Norman Braman

The real purpose of welfare is to get rid of poor people entirely. Everybody knows welfare has bad effects; that's the point.

P. J. O'Rourke

I want to get rid of corporate welfare.

Maxime Bernier

Controversy is not necessarily a bad thing. It's a good thing at times.

Akshaye Khanna

Trauma super charges addiction and makes it really bad. It doesn't necessarily cause it, though it can trigger it. It's not necessarily the issue but if you have bad addiction, it's there.