But with the aid of a very helpful online "subsidy calculator" from the Kaiser Family Foundation, I obtained a few representative figures.
When are subsidies helpful to an economy?
But the executives of these companies have a fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders to make profits, and they interpret the too-big-to-fail subsidies as helpful in this regard.
Gary Hufbauer, of the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, DC, argues that American subsidies transgress WTO norms.Helpful ambiguityHowever, WTO action against subsidies is not straightforward.
He said UK government subsidies would be helpful, if Mahindra goes ahead.
We're very good at helping people look at their public expenditures and we say to them things like, fuel subsidies really aren't very helpful to the poor – what you really need is to remove fuel subsidies and focus on things like conditional cash transfer plans.
Although Mahathir's economic platform is identified as populist, including rescission of the tax and subsidy reforms that (along with sometimes helpful rhetoric about modernized Islam) were hopeful turns under Najib, his immediate moves were reassuring to the ringgit currency.
Bono is hazy about how this could be done, but DATA, the lobbying group he fronts, insists the rich world must lift quotas and duties on African exports, and cut subsidies harmful to African growers.That would be helpful.
"Mandates, subsidies, protective tariffs and over-regulation are neither market-based nor helpful to society in general; however, they are--especially in the case of ethanol--the law," Koch told its employees in an in-house newsletter in January.
"The government has been helpful in giving us our back pay, but it hasn't been helpful in paying the subsidy".
