What is "subsidies"

Usage examples of "subsidies".

There was footage of fires and floods, an earthquake, an announcement that the government had decided to retain its subsidies for traditional agriculture a little longer, a report that someone had poisoned a squadron of Air Force warbirds, another that a warbird had bombed a tank farm, killing fifty of the rhino-based genimals.

But on the balance sheets of Taggart Transcontinental, the checks of Jim's subsidies for empty trains bore larger figures than the profit brought by the best freight train of the busiest industrial division.

It is only in a so-called mixed economy that a coercive monopoly can flourish, protected from the discipline of the capital markets by franchises, subsidies, and special privileges from governmental regulators.

Trench (DemSoc-NC), Committee Chair: Gentlemen and ladies, agricultural subsidies have been a tradition in this fine nation of ours for the last century and a half.

In the Midwest, subsidies have seen thousands of corn and wheat and hog farmers through years of drought and flood and foreign dumping.

The subsidies remain at least useful and perhaps even essential because they keep alive a form of agriculture that may be all that stands between us and catastrophe.

After the Civil War the railways with their privileges, charters, and subsidies became the main objects of suspicion and hostility.

It was the politically granted privileges—the charters and subsidies of the railroads—that people rebelled against.

This can be accomplished only by an act of government intervention, in the form of special regulations, subsidies, or franchises.

Every coercive monopoly that exists or has ever existed—in the United States, in Europe, or anywhere else in the world—was created and made possible only by an act of government: by special franchises, licenses, subsidies, by legislative actions which granted special privileges (not obtainable on a free market) to a man or a group of men, and forbade all others to enter that particular field.

So if they are told that capitalism is compatible with controls, with the particular controls which further their particular interests—be it government handouts, or minimum wages, or price-supports, or subsidies, or antitrust laws, or censorship of dirty movies—they will go along with such programs, in the comforting belief that the results will be nothing worse than a "modified" capitalism.

Those barbarians, allured by presents and subsidies, had promised to invade Persia with a numerous body of light cavalry.

Anti-tax crusader Richard Friedman says an MDTA study forecasts that, even with $466 million in committed subsidies, Dade's entire transit program will suffer a $148 million shortfall between now and 1999.

Despite receiving more than $1 million in public subsidies, Sanchez says his races lost more than $2 million.

He never sought any loans, bonds, subsidies, land grants or legislative favors from the government.