Zac Goldsmith

While big business gain subsidies and political access, small businesses drown in red tape, and individuals now risk being classified as terrorists for complaining about it. Economic globalisation is about homogenising differences in the worlds' markets, cultures, tastes and traditions. It's about giving big business access to a global market.

British Politician

Alex Tabarrok

College has been oversold. It has been oversold to students who end up dropping out or graduating with degrees that don't help them very much in the job market. It also has been oversold to the taxpayers, who foot the bill for subsidies that do nothing to encourage innovation and economic growth.

Canadian Economist

Nicholas Kristof

Sure, food stamps are occasionally misused, but anyone familiar with business knows that the abuse of food subsidies is far greater in the corporate suite. Every time an executive wines and dines a hot date on the corporate dime, the average taxpayer helps foot the bill.

American Journalist

Scott Gottlieb

Obamacare's costly regulations mean that the mix of people who sign up are tending to be older and sicker. Many young and otherwise healthy individuals continue to be priced out of the exchanges, even after the benefit of federal subsidies are baked into their costs.

American Public Servant

Michael Moss

The playing field is anything but level when you walk into the grocery store. So much government subsidy goes into processed foods. Even when you're well-meaning as a parent or a shopper for yourself, you can't help but be pulled toward the highly processed food.

Bill McKibben

We build schools and give government loans and grants to college kids; for those of us who are parents, tuition will often be the last big subsidy we give the children we've raised.

American Environmentalist

Abhijit Banerjee

Well-designed subsidies help the poor make the best of whatever opportunities they have; poorly designed ones either do very little or actually make things worse for them.

American Economist

Stephen Pagliuca

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.

American Businessman

Uday Kotak

The government should move towards supporting aspirations and not entitlement. Subsidies supporting non-productive growth should be reduced.

Indian Businessman

Jeff Goodell

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

American Author

Subsidy often implies financial help from government bodies to support certain sectors or products.

Government Assistance

Subsidies are used to decrease the cost of goods or services, making them more affordable.

Price Reduction

Subsidies can be a tool to stabilize markets and ensure steady supply in essential sectors.

Economic Stability

In an economic context, subsidies are often associated with specific industries to maintain competitiveness.

Industry Specific

Subsidies in economics can be aimed at preserving jobs in sectors facing financial challenges.

Job Preservation

Economic subsidies help businesses manage production costs and keep prices low for consumers.

Cost Management

 financial instability, governance and corruption, malnutrition and hunger, population migration, sanitation and water, and subsidies and trade barriers. We believe that these in many ways encompass the biggest problems in the world. The obvious question would be to ask, what do you think are the biggest things?

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 and they usually take the form of government-provided subsidies for housing, food, energy, and healthcare. Typically, these programs are means-tested, meaning that only people who fall below a certain income level are eligible for benefits. This policy is designed to ensure aid goes to those who need it most.

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 and heavy subsidies for the producers of fossil fuels, mean that almost every green technology is more expensive than its fossil-fuel-based cousin. This cost difference is known as a green premium. Governments have already started subsidizing electric vehicles to help make up the difference.

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 woodland once surrounded the abandoned farmstead probably cleared during the 1980s when EU subsidies encouraged to switch to more intensive crops like maize at the same time wine drinking was becoming more and more popular with a corresponding increase in demand for

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 as a global society. We could have all of the clever thinking and technology in the world, but it's not going to be enough in order for this technology to have a significant impact on climate. We really need regulation, we need subsidies, taxes on carbon.

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 the time simply to remove that subsidy but and you'll find the wheat growers doing very well a dam is a means to an end and we've got it the other way around now we look at them as in states they built they're there they're going to stay there forever

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 estimate that today the world pays a hundred and one billion dollars in subsidies to green energy but in a generations time the bill is not going to go down we will owe two hundred and twenty three billion dollars per year in

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 And as a result of this illiteracy, those few who do understand how power operates in civic life, those who understand how a bill becomes a law, yes, but also how a friendship becomes a subsidy,

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 so that they can enjoy the kind of life, again, that we take for granted. And third, it had to be cost-effective without subsidy or without mandate. It had to stand on its own two feet;

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 Such examples can be multiplied. But you get the picture. The money is there. Of course, collecting taxes, stopping food wastage and slashing subsidies is easier said than done,