Quotes About Carbon Tax

#1. Scratch the surface at conservative think tanks and universities that house free-market economists, and it's not hard to find proponents of a carbon tax.

Nina Easton

#2. Carbon tax has the advantage of basically being able to subsidize one set of activities that you want with another set of activities that you don't want. It's like a cigarette tax.

Stewart Brand

#3. I also think that if you want to put a price on carbon, why not just do it with a simple tax? Why not ask motorists to pay more, why not ask electricity consumers to pay more and then at the end of the year you can take your invoices to the tax office and get a rebate of the carbon tax you've paid

Tony Abbott

#4. If you had a carbon tax, you'd have less cars and more bicycles, more people getting around on foot and by public transport.

Richard Rogers

#5. You can't say British Columbia's carbon tax is exactly the same as increasing hydroelectricity rates in another province. They're very different mechanisms, but we shouldn't deny that both of them can have an impact, and that's why we're talking about this broadly.

Christy Clark

#6. We know taxes slow down economic growth, so if you add a carbon tax you have to also minus other taxes. You can't take more money out of people's pockets. I don't think you can build a consensus in this country about environmental policy if you're going to make people poor.

Christy Clark

#7. The carbon tax is the single biggest rolled gold example of Federal Labor not listening.

Campbell Newman

#8. I'd like to see a little more action on the energy side of things. I've been pushing for some kind of a carbon tax for years, and it seems to me we've had lots of opportunities to do it.

Robert F. Engle

#9. Our climate leadership team has recommended it go up and I would say there's always going to be upward pressure to raise the carbon tax. Remember, we're already double what the only other province who has a carbon tax is at right now, Quebec - they peg it at about $15 a tonne.

Christy Clark

#10. The reason we should do a carbon tax is because it's the right thing to do. It's economics 101, elementary stuff.

Elon Musk

#11. Ultimate success for a carbon tax would mean so complete a shift to renewable energy that the tax would stop raising much revenue at all.

Timothy Noah

#12. I don't think any Australian will ever forget, there will never be a Carbon Tax under a government I lead.

Nigel Scullion

#13. Anything to do with any new form of tax, like consumption tax in Japan, carbon tax in Australia, these are big issues that cannot be easily decided.

Najib Razak

#14. Given the large uncertainties at each major step of the case for reliance on a carbon tax, economists should reconsider their current support for such a policy.

Robert P. Murphy

#15. What you do by having an income tax rate reduction across the board, you really provide great incentives for people to work, produce, and increase output. So I would support a carbon tax in replacement for a progressive income tax.

Arthur Laffer

#16. You should be attacking the carbon emissions, period, and whether it's cap-and-trade or carbon tax or whatever, that's the realm in which we should be playing.

Joe Biden

#17. The discussion about energy options tends to be an intensely emotional, polarised, mistrustful, and destructive one. Every option is strongly opposed: the public seem to be anti-wind, anti-coal, anti-waste-to-energy, anti-tidal-barrages, anti-carbon-tax, and anti-nuclear.

David J. C. MacKay

#18. For the U.S., I think we should have a carbon tax, for environmental reasons.

Tyler Cowen

#19. It may be that the carbon tax is the final chapter in the strange death of Labor Australia.

Richard Flanagan

#20. I'm worried about economic growth in the United States. And the creation of jobs, output, and employment. And if you tax people who work, you're going to get less people working. And what the carbon tax would do is remove the tax from people who work and put it on a product in the ground.

Arthur Laffer

#21. I'm anti-tax, but I'm pro-carbon tax.

Elon Musk

#22. Hy is it you can impose a new tax and keep your economy growing? Only if you cut other taxes by exactly the same amount. The problem with carbon taxes around the world has been you dump a new tax onto the economy and it's just adding more tax.

Christy Clark

#23. The really important thing is learning how to sceptically question and rely on empirical evidence.

Lawrence M. Krauss

#24. Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.

Samuel Goldwyn

#25. was gonna romance the hell out of her for the next sixty years. He'd be a motherfucking pro at this hearts and flowers shit.

Lorelei James

#26. Society has to get a grip and put a tax on carbon. Of course, there is much that flows from that, and it is a complex situation. The small details of something such as climate change are political and social, and they are a lot about fairness and how we rebalance towards a fairer society.

Richard Rogers

#27. Alas, the world turned out so very different from the noble battleground she had led me to expect. The stakes were puny, the people gray and gutless; my Amazon arts were futile here.

Anne Fortier

#28. The key players are now all in place in Washington and in state governments across America to officially label carbon dioxide as a pollutant and enact laws that tax us citizens for our carbon footprints.

John Coleman

#29. Americans continue to suffer from a notoriously short attention span. They get mad as hell with reasonable frequency, but quickly return to their families and sitcoms. Meanwhile, the corporate lobbies stay right where they are, outlasting all the populist hysteria.

Eric Alterman

#30. Many retailers have complained bitterly to me about the complexity of the Carbon Reduction Commitment. It's not a commitment; it's a tax.

George Osborne

#31. If you want to put a price on carbon why not just do it with a simple tax.

Tony Abbott

#32. I think if you have mandatory carbon caps combined with a trading system, much like we did with sulfur, and if you have a tax-incentive program for investing in the solutions, that there's a package there that's very, very good,

Newt Gingrich

#33. You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination.

Larry McMurtry

#34. The SpecOps dress code stated that our apparel should be 'dignified' but in Cordelia's case they had obviously stretched a point.

Jasper Fforde

#35. Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him.

Sophocles

#36. Reading allows us to learn, see, do things that we could never have done with our own knowledge.

Eric Thomas

#37. Putting a tax on carbon could be an effective approach for curbing global warming pollution.

Frances Beinecke

#38. Better he should be bruised from head to foot by me who love him than that he should come to harm through ignorance,

Rudyard Kipling

#39. It wasn't a touch that said I need more. It was a touch that said I want this.

Maggie Stiefvater

#40. Throw in the humor, throw in that personality, try things you wouldn't normally try.

Melinda Clarke

#41. Concern yourself more with accepting responsibility than with assigning blame. Let the possibilities inspire you more than the obstacles discourage you.

Ralph Marston

#42. Happy is the man who loves the woods and waters,
Brother to the grass and well beloved of Pan;
The earth shall be his, and all her laughing daughters.
Happy the man.

Richard Le Gallienne

#43. Just touching that old tree was truly moving to me because when you touch these trees, you have such a sense of the passage of time, of history. It's like you're touching the essence, the very substance of life.

Kim Novak