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There will be no carbon tax under the government I lead. -- Julia Gillard
The carbon tax is the single biggest rolled gold example of Federal Labor not listening. -- Campbell Newman
Many scientists and economists also say putting a price on carbon through carbon taxes and/or cap-and-trade is necessary. -- David Suzuki
I don't think any Australian will ever forget, there will never be a Carbon Tax under a government I lead. -- Nigel Scullion
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The carbon tax is the single biggest rolled gold example of Federal Labor not listening." -- Campbell Newman
If you want to put a price on carbon why not just do it with a simple tax. -- Tony Abbott
It may be that the carbon tax is the final chapter in the strange death of Labor Australia. -- Richard Flanagan
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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