David Lewis Quotes

… a giant corporate welfare program

I'm against corporate welfare.

Far too many well-connected businesses are feeding at the federal trough. By addressing corporate welfare as well as other forms of welfare, we would add a whole new level of understanding to the notion of entitlement reform.

... the most egregious form of corporate welfare imaginable.

I know the ugly history of corporate welfare, and that's not New York City's future.

Ex-Im Bank doles out billions of dollars of loans and insurance subsidies every year and has become the poster child for corporate cronyism in Washington. Think of the bank as food stamps for America's Fortune 500 companies.

I want to get rid of corporate welfare.

If we are going to get a single mother off welfare and make her work, we should certainly make the private corporations contribute to the effort by giving up the over $1 Trillion of corporate welfare.

I have always opposed subsidies to private corporations.

The Merchants are rich enough. Cannot they help themselves.

No matter how large, efficient, and mature … industries become, they continue to demand protection, and thanks to their wealth and political power, they get it. The longer they live, the bigger babies they are.

The corporate welfare state derived from an approach to economic development which worships at the shrine of the gross national product.

I don't know how we will ever have the moral authority to deal with social welfare if we can't deal with corporate welfare.

[Congress] and their cronies secure more than one hundred billion dollars in corporate welfare

The business of America shouldn't be subsidizing business.

Bain also asked Kansas City for a $3 million tax break. The Bain executives were taking home $36 million in borrowed funds and were asking Kansas City to forfeit $3 million in public money for police officers, roads and schools? More free stuff!

The easy way to make money is to get special political privilege. From the beginning of time, business has cozied up to government and gotten restrictions on competition and subsidies and stuff.

If you or I fail at business, we fail. If we cheat and fail, we go to jail. But if you're rich and politically connected, your incompetence may be protected by a government bailout.

The two greatest enemies of free enterprise in the United States, in my opinion, have been, on the one hand, my fellow intellectuals and, on the other hand, the business corporations of this country. They are enemies for opposite reasons.

We oppose any subsidy or national aid to any private corporation for any purpose.

Historians, studying us, will say that we allowed corporations to become the government.

… the rules of big business … have superseded the teachings of our parents and are reducible to a simple maxim: Get a monopoly; let Society work for you: and remember that the best of all business is politics, for a legislative grant, franchise, subsidy or tax exemption is worth more than a Kimberly or Comstock lode, since it does not require any labor, either mental or physical, for its exploitation”

Politicians make the claim that our government has helped multinationals globalize and that businesses that globalize are somehow 'crony capitalists.' This is hogwash.

Like so many large companies in the U.S., Monsanto has prospered in large part due to U.S. taxpayer-funded programs and services.

The Export-Import Bank's long legacy of crony capitalism has hurt the livelihoods and businesses of many Americans who don't get special treatment from this misguided government program.