Rand Paul Quotes

I have always opposed subsidies to private corporations.

Obama came in and gave $700 billion to the bankers off the top as opposed to giving $700 billion to the poor.

Any bailout of a private company is a bad decision by our federal government. Private companies have the right to succeed, but they also should have the right to fail.

… a giant corporate welfare program

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

Using tax payers' money to provide liquidity to Wall Street so that the country wouldn't head into a depression was the right decision, in my judgment.

See where Congress passed a two billion dollar bill to relieve bankers' mistakes. You can always count on us helping those who have lost part of their fortune, but our whole history records nary a case where the loan was for the man who had absolutely nothing. Our theory is to help only those who can get along, even if they don't get a loan.

If you bail out every investment bank that gets in trouble, that's not capitalism, that's socialism for the rich

Maybe we should be directing our anger elsewhere - like toward Wall Street. Why is it we never think of Big Business when we think of welfare recipients? Companies take more of our tax dollars, and in much more questionable ways, than do those who are trying to heat their apartments with a kerosene stove.

Do you realize that $150 billion of our tax money is given to the corporations, unions and wealthy people for tax breaks, special subsidies and special regulations? That money would be available for health and education and building bridges.

The federal government... announced a plan to spend, like, a trillion of taxpayer dollars to buy out bad mortgages and debt. Wall Street was surprisingly enthusiastic about the plan to save their (butts) with other peoples' money. It was either that, or Sarah Palin's idea to sell it all on eBay.

You've got Washington picking winners and losers. And so, all of a sudden, decisions are being made on what helps politicians, not what helps the economy. Some will call it socialism. Some will call it a command and control economy. Whatever it is, it's antithetical to the American experience.

What Obama is saying is simple: The United States has become Too Big To Fail.

When we give a subsidy, the benefits to the public ought to exceed the benefits to the company. When it doesn't, that's our definition of corporate welfare.

You know, 600,000 millionaires get a Social Security check every month. I think there's enough waste and inefficiency.

Business, too, need to mend its ways. For many years various sections of American industry have asked for special legislation which offered a temporary benefit at the expense of normal economic processes. Business has asked for special subsidies and special tariffs, for special protection against price cutters or low cost producers, for government appropriations for this or that special purpose. Business cannot ask for government interference at one time, and then indignantly reject it at another.

The only winner in Privatization is Wall Street.

Society’s willingness to provide for the poor among them increases when the standard of living is advancing.

I don’t believe in subsidized programs because by and large they are not sustainable.

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

Expenses are nationalized; profits are privatized.

The middle class is not a fact of nature. It is partly the product of social engineering by the government.

The Merchants are rich enough. Cannot they help themselves.

In the United States you have socialism for the rich and free markets for the poor.

Giving away food only encourages the poor not to starve. Increase productivity, not employment. Insure profits before we insure people Don’t be haters! We’re job creators. Bailout banks, not these losers (people evicted by banks foreclosing on their mortgages).