Subsidies Quotes

Rich people who own mansions on the beach shouldn`t get federal subsidies. If you want to stay there, take the risk.

The government has done exactly the right thing. Dollar-bond investors were looking for a significant cut in subsidies, and Indonesia delivered.

There are several kinds of loans you can get: public and private loans. (The federal government) can give subsidies to encourage companies to lend money. Over the years, those competitive, free-market lenders found ways to take advantage of the law... . There were abuses in the system.

One answer is that the town`s elected officials thought that the project served a public purpose and that the various subsidies and favors were worth the price. But they may or may not have thought this.

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.

In Iran, things like water, electricity and bread - the necessities of life - are cheaper compared to other places and there are a lot of subsidies.

Our farmers and ranchers have never faced as many problems as they do today with drought, range fires, high gas prices and an ever tightening budget on agriculture subsidies.

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

These subsidies from four European governments, which include aircraft launch assistance, capital injections, debt forgiveness, have enabled Airbus to develop and range market airliners well below cost.

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

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 Nation`s largest corporations.

The Bush administration and Congressional Republicans have failed to bring up comprehensive energy reform or any piece of legislation for that matter that would lower gas prices, opting instead to give massive subsidies to the oil and gas industry.

That means following a very restrictive fiscal and monetary policy which will squeeze the monopolies and cut their subsidies. On the micro level we will allow other economic agents, both domestic and foreign, to compete with them.

The governor believes in the adoption subsidies program, but it was growing unchecked. With a generous means test, the program will be able to continue in the future.

The report provides overwhelming evidence that the Byrd amendment has turned into a giant corporate and welfare program where a few large companies are reaping millions of dollars in subsidies based on overstated and unaudited qualifying expenditures,