Top 198 Subsidies Quotes & Sayings

The burden of higher cost electricity and benefits of renewable energy subsidies fall unevenly on Californians.

Taking money in taxes and paying it straight back in subsidies is wrong.

Let's get rid of all our subsidies together. Let's join hands as wealthy industrialised nations and say to the world, we're going to get rid of all our agricultural subsidies together.

Just 8% of the $409bn spent on fossil-fuel subsidies in 2010 went to the poorest 20% of the population.

Subsidies are hugely important; they represent America's de facto energy policy.

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.

Our existing media system today is the direct result of government laws and subsidies that created it.

Corn is already the most subsidized crop in America, raking in a total of $51 billion in federal handouts between 1995 and 2005 - twice as much as wheat subsidies and four times as much as soybeans. Ethanol itself is propped up by hefty subsidies, including a fifty-one-cent-per-gallon tax allowance for refiners.

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

We've seen filibusters to block judicial nominations, jobs bills, political transparency, ending Big Oil subsidies - you name it, there's been a filibuster.

Rich people who own mansions on the beach shouldn't get federal subsidies. If you want to stay there, take the risk.

Subsidies and grants throw off the natural market signals that are supposed to allow students to make informed decisions on the true value of a college degree. Increasing aid, and expanding subsidies only intensifies the problem which will lead us down a path of more college dropouts and a continuation of skyrocketing tuition.

Eventually, the economy will work well when you reduce subsidies. People have got used to getting some handouts from governments.

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.

If Federal Reserve loans are subsidies, it doesn't show up in the federal budget.

Subsidies create more of whatever is being subsidized.

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.

The U.S. fiscal union has worked, in no small part, by enabling subsidies to the Mississippis without requiring the approval of the Minnesotas. It creates an important form of insurance.

If we think that high marginal tax rates are bad because they distort incentives, the same is then true for tax subsidies.

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.

From the beginning of time, business has cozied up to government and gotten restrictions on competition and subsidies and stuff.

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

Subsidies for the oil, gas and coal industries are projected to cost taxpayers more than $135 billion in the coming decade. At a time when scientists tell us we need to reduce carbon pollution to prevent catastrophic climate change, it is absurd to provide massive subsidies that pad fossil-fuel companies' already enormous profits.

The minute you hear subsidies, I don't care what, if it's health care, buying cars, the minute you hear subsidies, you have to understand, whatever's going on here, it isn't market forces.

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.'

However imperfectly, subsidies for the poor do actually reduce hunger, ease suffering and create opportunity, while subsidies for the rich result in more private jets and yachts. Would we rather subsidize opportunity or yachts? Which kind of subsidies deserve more scrutiny?

Fossil fuel subsidies are a hand brake as we drive along the road to a sustainable energy future.

We need to cut subsidy leakages, not subsidies themselves.

Subsidies have changed the way the nation behaves.

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.

Subsidies are a shell game, not a net addition to national wealth.

Government does the least good and the most harm through subsidies.

If the only motive was to help people who could not afford education, advocates of government involvement would have simply proposed tuition subsidies.

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

Private charity discourages poverty while public subsidies encourage it.

To help resolve conflicts, the rules-based multilateral trading system should be strengthened and modernized to encompass areas such as digital services, subsidies, and technology transfer.

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.

The government only gives subsidies for nitrogenous fertilisers. With the result, farmers do not apply balanced fertilisers.

Government subsidies to elite private universities take the form of tax deductions for people who make charitable contributions to them.

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.

It is righteous to receive state subsidies to make films that criticise the state - I want Japanese people to accept such European values.

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.

The public subsidies provided to miners, loggers, and ranchers are as extravagant and as harmful to the public interest as the subsidies that the Federal Reserve and Treasury provide to the 'banks too big to fail.'

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. These are rocks that make electricity, so they are incapable of receiving your hate.

We want a comprehensive package that covers export subsidies, tariffs and overall levels of support. British Prime Minister Tony Blair is making central to his summit speech that he wants to abolish all export subsidies. It is up to him to push the European Union in that direction, and the U.S. needs to reciprocate.

I don't owe my success to state subsidies but to a faithful public which has sustained me.

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

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.

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.

My gut tells me that the Supreme Court will rule the subsidies to be illegal, and therefore, Obamacare will fail.

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

It's a vain hope to believe that people will voluntarily turn their back on government subsidies.

The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies.

We cannot let Obamacare expand geographically by setting up state exchanges, nor can we extend Obamacare's unlawful subsidies.

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 Joint Committee on Taxation estimated that in 2016, the corporate income tax raised $300 billion in revenue, while what it called 'targeted subsidies' cost about $270 billion. In other words, Congress could eliminate the subsidies and cut the corporate rate nearly in half without any significant loss in revenue.

We've seen the government give out subsidies to companies, those companies turn around and use it for executive bonuses.

The people who deserve and need subsidies are those who are on average incomes and less.

Ex-Presidents of the United States get state subsidies. Not so in Russia. You get no government support.