Carbon Tax Quotes

• 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

  Simple, Thinking, Years

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• There will be no carbon tax under the government I lead.

  Julia Gillard

  Government, Carbon, Taxes

  "PM says no carbon tax under her govt". www.smh.com.au. August 16, 2010.

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• 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

  Stuff, Reason, Economics

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• But to truly transform our economy, protect our security, and save our planet from the ravages of climate change, we need to ultimately make clean, renewable energy the profitable kind of energy. So I ask this Congress to send me legislation that places a market-based cap on carbon pollution and drives the production of more renewable energy in America.

  Barack Obama

  Business, America, Climate

  First Speech to a Joint Session of Congress, delivered 24 February 2009

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• 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

  Country, Thinking, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• If we change the way the electricity sector operates, we can bring down our levels of carbon pollution, and continue the crucial task of tackling climate change. Putting a price on carbon would do this.

  Julia Gillard

  Business, Tasks, Levels

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• Many scientists and economists also say putting a price on carbon through carbon taxes and/or cap-and-trade is necessary.

  David Suzuki

  Scientist, Caps, Taxes

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• If you want to put a price on carbon why not just do it with a simple tax?

  Tony Abbott

  Simple, Why Not, Want

  "Abbott dogged by old carbon comment", www.smh.com.au. June 7, 2011.

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• If other countries don't impose a cost on carbon, then we will be at a disadvantage...we would look at considering perhaps duties that would offset that cost.

  Steven Chu

  Country, Business, Looks

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• Preventing global warming from becoming a planetary catastrophe may take something even more drastic than renewable energy, superefficient urban design, and global carbon taxes.

  Jamais Cascio

  Design, Energy, May

  Jamais Cascio “Hacking the Earth”, Lulu.com

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• 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

  Cutting, World, Growing

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• We need to use economic instruments such as carbon taxes, cap and trade, tax and dividend and whatever else to help incentivize behavior that will move us to a post-carbon, post-animal agriculture world, and make our societies more resilient to the shocks that are already baked into the system. But that doesn't make climate change an "economic issue."

  Dale Jamieson

  Moving, Animal, Agriculture

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The marginal tax rate for high income earners is going up. Small businesses are no longer enjoying some of the exemption from payroll tax. Now there will be carbon taxes.

  Chris Alexander

  Payroll Tax, Income, Small Business

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I should say that Canada is one of the major criminals, not just the tar sands and so on, but even mining throughout the world, a lot of it is Canadian. It's extremely destructive, so an important thing for Canadians to do is curtail the predatory and destructive behavior of their own government and corporations. A carbon tax is one way of doing it.

  Noam Chomsky

  Government, Important, Corporations

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• 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

  Team, Climate, Pressure

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• 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

  Support, Steps, Should

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

  Campbell Newman

  Listening, Gold, Example

  "New Qld Premier calls for greater independence from Commonwealth". "AM" with Sabra Lane, www.abc.net.au. April 13, 2012.

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• I kind of like carbon taxes because we already know how to apply them. We already have apparatus in place. When we talk about these other solutions - like a billion tons of iron filings in the ocean or putting sunshades between us and the sun - they're huge. We have no idea if they will work. We have no idea what their nasty consequences might be. And it's unlikely we can do them anyway.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Ocean, Ideas, Iron

  Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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

  Nigel Scullion

  Thinking, Government, Forget

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• I don't rule out the possibility of legislating a Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, a market-based mechanism.

  Julia Gillard

  Possibility, Pollution, Reduction

  "Opposition vows to repeal carbon tax". "The World Today" with Eleanor Hall, www.abc.net.au. February 28, 2011.

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• 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

  Impact, Talking, Different

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• 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

  Opportunity, Years, Pushing

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Coal is the moral choice, particularly for the developing world... The model for the world right now should be Australia. Australia gets it. Scientifically they get it, politically they get it and particularly when it comes to the United Nations, they get it. They are pulling out of this, they are repealing their carbon tax and Canada seems to be intrigued by what Australia is doing.

  Marc Morano

  Australia, Choices, Coal

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• Until we fully understand what turned two brothers who allegedly perpetrated the Boston Marathon bombings into murderers, it is hard to make any policy recommendation other than this: We need to redouble our efforts to make America stronger and healthier so it remains a vibrant counterexample to whatever bigoted ideology may have gripped these young men....And the best place to start is with a carbon tax.

  Thomas Friedman

  Brother, Men, Boston

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• 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

  Want, Able, Cigarette

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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