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

— Tyler Cowen

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

Eventually we'll use a CO2 tax offset by a reduction in taxes elsewhere alongside a cap-and-trade plan, but the degree of difficulty associated with…

— Al Gore

There's such a wide variation in tax systems around the world, it's difficult to imagine a harmonized CO2 tax that every country agrees to.…

— Al Gore

I think all countries need to aim to cut the CO2 emissions per person, taking account of externalities like imports and exports.

— Martin Rees

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

We need to put a price on carbon, and that's what cap-and-trade does and that's also what a CO2 tax does. As long as…

— Al Gore

“Emissions of carbon dioxide are largely by-products of productivity-- of industry, governments, and individuals producing things that we want more of (including heating, cooling,…

— Bjorn Lomborg

The key players are now all in place in Washington and in state governments across America to officially label carbon dioxide as a pollutant…

— John Coleman

If you're really concerned about CO2, you'd want to have every drop of energy produced in the United States. We do it cleaner, safer,…

— Doug Burgum

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

By taxing CO2, firms and households would have an incentive to retrofit for the world of the future. The tax would also provide firms…

— Joseph Stiglitz