When, for superior motives, you are compelled to bribe an industry that would fail otherwise, you should not imagine that this industry is lucrative.
Category: Subsidies
THE LOGIC OF THE MONITEUR INDUSTRIEL
Trade and machines, as much for good as for bad, act exactly in the same way.
PROFIT THEORY
Allow me to ransom your citizens, not only to the tune of my losses but beyond, and you will grant profits to my industry.
COBDEN AND THE LEAGUE
If the tax were collected this way you would not tolerate it, however, this is what the lord is doing in a different guise.
LETTER FROM VICTOR CONSIDERANT AND ANSWER FROM F. BASTIAT
Thus your proposal can be summed up as deterring good industries in order to encourage the bad ones.
TO THE ELECTORS OF THE DISTRICT OF SAINT-SEVER
If growing rapeseed is in itself a sound activity, there is no need to give any supplementary profit to those who practice it. If it is unsound, the extra income does not make it sound.
REFLECTIONS ON THE AMENDMENT OF M. MORTIMER-TERNAUX
Once legal plunder of the poor for the benefit of the rich has become part of the system, with the support of the majority, how will we be able to reject legal plunder of the rich for the benefit of the poor?
4. THEATRES AND THE FINE ARTS.
Their faith lies in the legislator, not in humanity; ours lies in humanity, not in the legislator.
19. – ANTEDILUVIAN SUGAR.
But when we have gone down the wrong road for so long, it is childish to refuse to join the right road because it will cause some discomfort.
X. – THE TAX COLLECTOR.
The Chamber has understood that if this continued M. D . . . would face the choice of either having to operate his factory better or closing it.