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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Eager
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- Nov 07, 2020
Far too many businesses have been all too eager to lobby for maintaining and increasing subsidies and mandates paid by taxpayers and consumers.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
The role of business is to provide products and services that make people's lives better - while using fewer resources - and to act lawfully and with integrity.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
I studied what principles under-laid peace and prosperity and concluded the only way to achieve societal well-being was through a system of economic freedom.
- Easy Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe my business and non-profit investments are much more beneficial to societal well-being than sending more money to Washington.
- Favored
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- Nov 07, 2020
Crony capitalism is much easier than competing in an open market. But it erodes our overall standard of living and stifles entrepreneurs by rewarding the politically favored rather than those who provide what consumers want.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
In business, real jobs profitably produce goods and services that people value more highly than their alternatives. Subsidizing inefficient jobs is costly, wastes resources, and weakens our economy.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our elected officials would do well to remember that the most prosperous countries are those that allow consumers - not governments - to direct the use of resources. Allowing the government to pick winners and losers hurts almost everyone, especially our poorest citizens.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Laying the groundwork for smaller, smarter government, especially at the federal level, is going to be tough. But it is essential for getting us back on the path to long-term prosperity.
- Favors
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- Nov 07, 2020
Far from trying to rig the system, I have spent decades opposing cronyism and all political favors, including mandates, subsidies and protective tariffs - even when we benefit from them.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that cronyism is nothing more than welfare for the rich and powerful, and should be abolished.
- Connected
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- Nov 07, 2020
Subsidies and mandates are just two of the privileges that government can bestow on politically connected friends. Others include grants, loans, tax credits, favorable regulations, bailouts, loan guarantees, targeted tax breaks and no-bid contracts.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to dedicate my life to getting publicity.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
From the beginning of time, business has cozied up to government and gotten restrictions on competition and subsidies and stuff.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best way to make money is to have more economic freedom, which is why we are one of the very few large companies that are consistently for it.
- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
You pass a program and get people dependent on it, making it brutal to get rid of. The key is not letting it get started.
- Competition
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a company is not being guided by the products they make and what the customers need, but by how they can manipulate the system - get regulations on their competitors, or mandates on using their products, or eliminating foreign competition - it just lowers the overall standard of living and hurts the disadvantaged the most.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you start attacking cronyism and people's political interests, it gets nasty.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The successful companies try to keep the new entrants down. Now that's great for a company like ours. We make more money that way because we have less competition and less innovation. But for the country as a whole, it's horrible.
- Clean Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are not trying to prevent new clean energy businesses from succeeding. Any business that's economical, that can succeed in the marketplace, any form of energy, we're all for. As a matter of fact, we're investing in quite a number of them, ourselves - whether that's ethanol, renewable fuel oil.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020