Under European Union rules, direct subsidies to companies are strictly forbidden, but industry subsidies are treated more lightly.
Europe has promised to reduce direct subsidies to food production, instead paying farmers for things like land management.
Besides direct subsidies, tax breaks for coal shouldn't be declared dead yet either.
But the agency said European funding rules explicitly prohibited direct subsidies to airports.
Tariffs and quotas act as direct subsidies for domestic industries at consumer expense.
FORBES: Where to Cut the Federal Budget? Start by Killing Corporate Welfare
They also get one major point correct: the actual direct subsidies being paid out are not in the rich countries.
FORBES: National Geographic's Howling Ignorance About Fossil Fuel Subsidies
Although it has put forward ideas for replacing price supports with direct subsidies, its plan would not much change farmers' behaviour.
Introduce a system of direct subsidies to farm households, thereby encouraging persons desiring to enter agriculture to do so without great risk.
Local companies developing to these standards receive strong financial support via incentives, direct subsidies or government agency procurement policies, ensuring they quickly win the local market.
FORBES: The China Paradox, Part 2: The Trouble With Going Global
The author neglects to mention the tens of billions of dollars in direct subsidies, grants, tax breaks etc. that are given to the fossil fuel industry each year.
FORBES: More False Hope About Renewable Energies That Consumers Reject
The success of pollution taxes in Europe and of emissions-trading systems for sulphur dioxide in America show that these are a far better way of encouraging innovation than technology mandates or direct subsidies.
In the past TiVo has had to expense the cost of the cobranding, either in the form of direct subsidies or as a noncash charge to amortize stock and warrants issued in return for services.
For example, in the ethanol business, it is almost inconceivable that there is any investment in plant or equipment whose return matches that from the political investment that has provided the industry a combination of direct subsidies, mandated use, and protection from foreign competitors.
FORBES: The Looming Failure of Obamacare, Part 3: Rent-Seeking
First, it addressed the elimination of direct federal subsidies for low-income housing development.
FORBES: For the 21st Century, a Network of Beneficial Philanthropy and Corporate Citizenship
"Billions in direct payment subsidies are paid out even in good times and for crops farmers aren't even growing, " explained Sen.
Since these charges depend on the level of fares, and most fares are strictly controlled, direct government subsidies to the railways will almost certainly have to increase.
Because taxable bonds carry higher yields than tax-exempts, the idea was that Treasury would give state and local governments direct cash subsidies to partially offset their extra borrowing costs.
FORBES: Sequester Shows Why States Should Be Wary Of Feds' Medicaid Expansion
Finally, U.S. launcher manufacturers who do not receive direct government subsidies and who are obliged to do business in the market place are woefully disadvantaged in competing with official Soviet and Chinese agencies that face no such constraints.
More provocatively, what failing institution has been successfully propped up in America through a program of shamelessly direct and deliberate subsidies?
FORBES: Can Subsidizing Families Fix The Economy? Can It Save The GOP?
Whether they want to resist American modernity from fear or from envy, cultural protectionists are wrong to think they can direct taste through subsidies and quotas.
Even with all of the production tax credits, loan guarantees and a battery of other direct and indirect subsidies, nuclear power remains the most expensive source of conventional electricity on the grid once capital costs are plugged into the equation.
WSJ: The Experts: What's the Best Way Forward on Nuclear Power?
As ever, the government pays lip service to economic liberalisation, but has neither the courage nor the authority to free itself of the commitment to pay billions of dollars in direct and indirect subsidies: prices of basic goods such as fuel, bread and medicine are ridiculously low.
However we will only see that truth if we remove direct and indirect energy subsidies.
FORBES: Government Subsidies: Silent Killer Of Renewable Energy
The agreement banned direct production and sales subsidies, but let governments continue to funnel money into new aircraft projects.
Ironically, Europe's much-criticised Common Agricultural Policy has been moving away from price and production-based subsidies towards direct payments to farmers that have far less impact on trade.
For this reason, we at the Center agree with Senator Bradley and many other Senators that government-guaranteed and direct credits, are subsidies which must be eliminated multilaterally.
Instead of pouring money into subsidies and direct production support of existing, inefficient green energy, President Obama should focus on dramatically ramping up investments into the research and development of green energy.
Early on in the day, he admonished college athletic departments for relying on direct institutional support and state government subsidies in order to operate in the black.
These are likely to entail, among other things, strategically dubious assistance to the Soviet energy sector and considerably increased U.S. taxpayer exposure arising from a variety of direct and in-kind American subsidies and government grants to the USSR.
应用推荐