Quote by Elizabeth Kolbert

If the carbon tax really was about saving the world, we would presume the largest industrial emitters of carbon would have to pay it.

— Pierre Poilievre

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

— Tony Abbott

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

— Timothy Noah

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

I also think that if you want to put a price on carbon, why not just do it with a simple tax? Why not…

— Tony Abbott

We should tax every company's carbon footprint and the carbon footprint of every building and home, to incentivize people to reduce their carbon footprint.

— Philip Kotler

A cap and trade bill will likely increase the costs of electricity. . . . These costs will be passed on to the consumers.…

— Steven Chu

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…

— Christy Clark

The Liberal carbon tax is just about raising revenue for government.

— Andrew Scheer

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

— Tyler Cowen

I think any public policy that doesn't account for the fact that most CO2 emissions don't come from the United States, but they come…

— Todd Young

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…

— Steven Chu