“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 Nations largest corporations.” WarNationsEconomySeriousCostBudgetsCorporationsGrantsImmenseDeficitSubsidiesSluggishOutlandishBudget Deficit Author:Ron Kind
“You show me a polluter, I'll show you a subsidy. I'll show you a fat cat using political clout to escape the discipline of the free market and force the public to pay his production costs.” ShowsPoliticalForcePayDisciplineCostCatProductionsFatsShow MeFree MarketSubsidiesClout Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
“You show me pollution and I will show you people who are not paying their own way, people who are stealing from the public, people who are getting the public to pay their costs of production. All environmental pollution is a subsidy.” PeopleWayShowsPayCostEnvironmentalProductionsStealingPollutionShow MeSubsidiesEnvironmental Pollution Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
“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.” NeedsCompanyIndustryCostScientistClimateClimate ChangeProfitOilDecadesBillionsEnormousAbsurdFuelGasMassivePollutionCarbonCoalFossilsTaxpayersFossil FuelPadsSubsidies Author:Bernie Sanders
“When corporations get special handouts from the government, subsidies and tax breaks, it costs you. It means you have to pay more in taxes to make up for these hidden expenses, and government has less money for good schools and roads, Medicare and national defense and everything else you need.” NeedsMeanGovernmentSchoolPayBreakSpecialCostTaxesDefenseCorporationsExpensesMedicareSubsidiesNational DefenseTax BreaksHandoutsGood School Author:Robert Reich
“Obamacare's not imploding. The main goal of Obamacare was two-fold. One was to cover the uninsured, of which we've covered 20 million, the largest expansion in American history. The other was to fix broken insurance markets where insurers could deny people insurance just because they were sick or they had been sick. Those have been fixed, and for the vast majority of Americans, costs in those markets have come down, thanks to the subsidies made available under Obamacare.” PeopleHas BeensMadeTwoGoalMillionsBrokenCostSickMajorityAvailableDenyThanksFixedCoveredAmerican HistoryExpansionFoldsObamacareSubsidies Author:Jonathan Gruber
“Corporations do not pay taxes, they collect them, passing the burden to consumers as a cost of production. And corporate taxation is a feast of rent-seeking - a cornucopia of credits, exemptions and other subsidies conferred by the political class on favored, and grateful, corporations.” PoliticalPayClassCostTaxesGratefulProductionsSeekingBurdenCreditPassingPassingsConsumersCorporateCorporationsTaxationSubsidiesExemption Author:George Will
“The ninety-nine cent price of a fast-food hamburger simply doesn't take account of that meal's true cost--to soil, oil, public health, the public purse, etc., costs which are never charged directly to the consumer but, indirectly and invisibly, to the taxpayer (in the form of subsidies), the health care system (in the form of food-borne illnesses and obesity), and the environment (in the form of pollution), not to mention the welfare of the workers in the feedlot and the slaughterhouse and the welfare of the animals themselves.” CareFormAnimalEnvironmentCostAccountsWorkersIllnessOilNineHealth CareConsumersWelfareMealsSoilEtcPollutionCentsNinetyTaxpayersPursesObesityPublic HealthFast FoodHamburgersSubsidiesNinety NineHealth Care SystemSlaughterhouses Author:Michael Pollan