Quotes about subsidizing (16 Quotes)



    Our focus needs to be on freeing dissidents and continuing to support the opposition movement within Cuba - not rewarding Castro and subsidizing and strengthening his totalitarian regime.

    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.

    The heavy-handed part was telling us that we will kill ECOH and that we will hurt private industry in Rockford if we leave the ECOH coalition, ... I didn't think the School Board was in the business of subsidizing private industry.

    Donahue joined leaders of other religions in promoting the film and subsidizing tickets. We first bought 1,200 tickets, subsidizing it at 5 a pop, even though it cost us 8 a pop, ... We sold out in two days, so we bought 2,000 more tickets. And we sold out again within two days.


    I don't think the U.S. Congress or even the Department of Defense is going to be interested in subsidizing the French economy with that kind of money, ... If Airbus was a British company, rather than predominantly French and German, I think it would be very different.

    In the late 1950s, in line with the space race and the Cold War, the government put a tremendous emphasis on funding engineers and computer people. The country had a massive focus on subsidizing students, supporting government labs, and supporting colleges and universities. So there was a huge growth spurt in the talent pool in the 1960s as colleges and universities pumped out large numbers of technically trained people.

    What really galls me is the fact that even with the 150 million, even though we're going to be subsidizing those jobs between 30,000 and 40,000 a year the company is still looking for concessions from the workers out there.

    We find it increasingly troubling when state and local governments provide our competitors a head start in the marketplace by subsidizing the construction of their stores. We believe the success of a retail business is best decided in the marketplace, not the halls of the state capitol.



    What we hear more than anything is the state doesn't have any business subsidizing or building a capital project at a church-chartered institution.


    We think we'll be able to demonstrate convincingly that other states aren't subsidizing fast-growth states, specifically Utah. These plants are system-wide resources that provide a benefit to the entire PacifiCorp system in terms of reliability and voltage support.

    It's not the right time to have a decision about a federal backstop for disaster coverage. We don't think the entire country should be subsidizing people living in coastal areas.




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