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.
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.'
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.
The commercial and subsidised theatre are intrinsically linked. I wouldn't have had the career I have had without the opportunities I had through the subsidised sector. However, I do think, in any walk of life, subsidy for the sake of subsidy is not ...
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.
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, in...
By the mid-1950s real estate promoters of the commercial strip were attaching it to the centerless residential suburb. Both strips and tracts expanded under the impact of federal subsidies to developers, but since these subsidies were indirect, it wa...
Our existing media system today is the direct result of government laws and subsidies that created it.
I don't owe my success to state subsidies but to a faithful public which has sustained me.
From the beginning of time, business has cozied up to government and gotten restrictions on competition and subsidies and stuff.
Ex-Presidents of the United States get state subsidies. Not so in Russia. You get no government support.
The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies.
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.
Government subsidies to elite private universities take the form of tax deductions for people who make charitable contributions to them.
If Federal Reserve loans are subsidies, it doesn't show up in the federal budget.
An economy funded by subsidy is no economy in an ideal sense.
Subsidies are hugely important; they represent America's de facto energy policy.
I am a free market Republican. I am against subsidies, in most cases.
Haitian rice farmers are quite efficient, but they can't compete with U.S. agribusiness that relies on a huge government subsidy, thanks to Ronald Reagan's free market enthusiasms.
Far too many businesses have been all too eager to lobby for maintaining and increasing subsidies and mandates paid by taxpayers and consumers.
What’s interesting is that most free-marketers don’t seem to want a free market at all, but a status quo market. The market in the United States is anything but free. If it were, big business would have to survive without corporate welfare to the...
