Subsidize Quotations

Should we continue to spend billions to subsidize foreign military dictatorships, or should we concentrate on taking better care of the one we have right here at home?

Rather than subsidize 'American' exporters, it makes more sense to subsidize any global company - to the extent it's adding to its exports from the United States.

Now we've got to accelerate the transition away from dirty energy. Rather than subsidize the past, we should invest in the future - especially in communities that rely on fossil fuels. That's why I'm going to push to change the way we manage our oil and coal resources, so that they better reflect the costs they impose on taxpayers and our planet.

Obviously, this company is having big problems. It's cash flow negative. They are now at the point where they are selling off pieces of their business to subsidize the remaining piece. All their eggs are in one basket.

If this proposal is approved in Minnesota, it will have a disastrous effect on consumers. It will force good drivers and responsible homeowners to subsidize those with poor loss histories by hundreds of millions of dollars each year.

The plan is stupid because it's subsidizing Chevy Chase, Md., and Greenwich, Conn., as well as the inner cities. Universal service was never meant to subsidize places where the average price of a house is $800,000.

When you create an economy where you subsidize corporate profits through a welfare program and food stamps in order to keep wages low in some perverse pursuit of 'competiveness,' than you reap the fruits of the anger that you sow.

If people in California want to pay extra taxes to have their trash picked up, people in Texas shouldn't have to subsidize it.

If a community decides that they want that farmland in perpetuity . . . there'd better a strong desire on the part of the community to subsidize that farming operation. Somebody's going to have to pay fair-market value for that property.

Hopefully this attempt to have our wealthier patrons subsidize our poorer ones will be a success.

My opponents attitude is, 'If it moves, tax it, if it keeps moving, regulate it and when it stops, subsidize it.

Someone is going to subsidize the home ... and it is going to be the market-rate home buyer. Middle-income families are effectively squeezed out.

Really, the only way to face the biggest problems we have is for the government to change the way they subsidize food. The way we subsidize food makes it cheaper to go to McDonald's and get a hamburger than a salad, and that's insane.

States like Maryland should be applauded, not sued, for trying to address the tragic fact that in state after state Wal-Mart forces taxpayers to subsidize its health-care costs.

I think Southwest needs to step up to the plate. We can't have the city of Dallas continue to subsidize Southwest Airlines.

People are in business to make money, and I can't see why the city would subsidize those things.

James Leininger is so obsessed with forcing taxpayers to subsidize tuition vouchers at private schools that he has tried for years to buy a Legislature that would do it.

It is going to go toward education funds for my grandchildren and it will subsidize my philanthropy.

Overall, we think it was a big victory. The little guy doesn't have to subsidize the fat cat's health care.

It forces the oil refineries to subsidize fuel so consumers in China don't feel much of the pain of high energy prices.

We need a couple of winners out of here, such as papaya or coffee, to be able to subsidize the other projects. We're getting very close in that effort.

The problem with energy taxes is that the poor and middle class subsidize the wealthy, and environmentalists tend to forget that.

We know the U.S. has pressures -- employment issues and elections and the credibility of the government. For China, we could also say that the current state is not only good for China but also for the rest of the world and also good for the U.S. because we are using our foreign exchange reserves to buy U.S. Treasury bonds and subsidize U.S. consumers.

Billions of dollars have been spent to subsidize sprawl. It's not about no-growth. It's about control.

It would be nice if a federal agency would subsidize it. We're not just important to New Orleans, we're important to the world.

There would be plenty of justification to raise revenues in order to subsidize businesses that employ low-wage workers. But there can be no justification for pandering to the economy's entire bottom half merely to attract its votes.

It was time to find a way to subsidize the arts. To give something back. I wanted to teach, I wanted to give master classes and I wanted to direct.

When consumers realize they can no longer expect that appreciation bonus to subsidize their consumption habits, they will very likely pull back on spending.

While it all sounds good, what are the real specifics and where is the money coming from? And the fundamental question is why does someone with such extraordinary wealth look for the taxpayers of the state to subsidize his ventures?

A lot of these projects are not really meant to help commuters but to subsidize big developers.

American taxpayers are forced to subsidize education, health care, food stamps and other generous government services for illegal immigrants, as well as the printing of government documents in other languages.

Saying his workers would subsidize enhanced payments for police and fire, I think that is very false.

People can get out of the homosexual lifestyle; those people exist. I spoke at their convention just a few weeks ago. There were hundreds of them, now happily married, now with families of their own. I will encourage anybody I can to get out of a destructive lifestyle. And, I don't believe a healthy society can endorse it, subsidize it, or encourage it.

FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell has said that several foreign dignitaries personally spoke to him about creating a new Internet user fee to subsidize an international universal service fund at the expense of traditional end users.

Five years ago, we studied the issue of dialysis to see what Floyd Valley Hospital could do to help. Since I've been here, we had studied the issue twice before and found wasn't feasible for us. The last time we studied it, we found it wasn't feasible unless we were able to knock down some of the costs so we could better subsidize the losses we could expect.

Why does the U.S. subsidize three industries of the 19th century and no industries of the 21st century?

Why should someone who's lived here 20 years pay for (growth). I pay water and electric, and I don't want to subsidize new growth.

In general, we continue to believe that local governments should not have a competitive advantage when competing with the private sector, and they should not be allowed to subsidize their business plan.

In America, we have subsidized private jets, big banks and hedge fund managers. Wouldn't it make more sense to subsidize kids?

Industrial policy too often amounts to taxing the winners to subsidize the losers.

Insurers use several factors to develop rates that are based on a driver's risk of having a loss. This way one group of policyholders does not subsidize another group.

If you don't charge anything, you subsidize sprawl.

The BLM feels very strongly that it's important to have a viable livestock industry operating in the rural western United States, ... that public land to subsidize operations to stay in business.

All options are on the table. I think he worked hard to improve the team in Portland. He built the Rose Garden. At some point, he's entitled to say he's not going to subsidize it any further.

It's part of a larger system that's yet to be launched. That system will be a for-pay service, and that will subsidize what we're doing for the homeless.

If you subsidize an activity you get more of it. It's encouraging the behavior that leads to more clients for abortion clinics.

If your kid doesn't go to college, you subsidize your own retirement.

They have to get this resolved so they move on to the other issues. Until they know how many people will be left after the retirements take place, they won't know how much money GM will have to pay to subsidize the wages and benefits for its former workers who are left at Delphi, once the new pay scales are implemented.

And the fundamental question is, why does someone with such extraordinary wealth look for the taxpayers of the state to subsidize his ventures?

The general fund must subsidize transportation, ... The subsidy ultimately takes funds from the classroom.

You can't ask a company to subsidize you being at home with children and still expect to work for a company that will be tops in its field for 20 to 30 years, ... Why Men Earn More.

The troubling thing is the court has approved a federal system that forces taxpayers to subsidize religious indoctrination.

They don't work, 80% of the men don't work, they don't pay taxes, ... Others have to subsidize their existence. I don't think this is possible in a liberal western country.

What's happening now with the low connection fees is you're using citizens taxes to subsidize new building and I don't think that's a fair thing to be doing.

It's a very generous grant. We figure that for the 167 children we sign up, they'll subsidize 833 more.

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?

To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

Some taxpayers may object to a print journalism bailout on the grounds that it mostly benefits the liberal elite. And we can't blame taxpayers for being reluctant to subsidize the reportorial careers of J-school twerps who should have joined the Peace Corps and gone to Africa to 'speak truth to power' to Robert Mugabe.

The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.