CO2 Tax Quotes – Perspectives on Environmental Levy

"To illustrate the extent of Germany's CO2 hysteria, it is important to note that over the next 24 years until 2045, the amount that Germany wants to save at great expense is exactly the amount that China consumes in six months."

Hans-Jürgen Irmer

"We must not really give those who do not get vaccinated the chance to circumvent the vaccination, for example by letting themselves be tested free."

Lothar Wieler

"All parties in industrialized countries, whether right or left, will adopt the CO2 global warming theory. This is a unique opportunity to tax the air we breathe. Because they supposedly save the world from a heat death, politicians even receive applause for it. No party will resist this temptation."

Nigel Calder

"Climate disclosures must become comprehensive, climate risk management must be transformed, and sustainable investments must become mainstream. Companies that anticipate these developments will be generously rewarded. Those that don't will cease to exist."

Mark Carney

"Taxes are a permitted form of robbery."

Thomas von Aquin

"Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation."

Milton Friedman

"Unlike every other person and institution in society, government obtains its revenue from coercion, from taxation."

Murray Rothbard

"This may surprise you, because it surprised me when I found out, but the single biggest thing an individual can do to combat climate change is to stop eating animals."

James Francis Cameron

"The income tax is the biggest single intrusion suffered by the American people. It forces every worker to be a bookkeeper, to open his records to the government, to explain his expenses, to fear conviction for a harmless accounting error. Compliance wastes billions of dollars. It penalizes savings and creates an enormous drag on the U.S. economy. It is incompatible with a free society, and we aren’t libertarians if we tolerate it."

Harry Browne

"The best thing we can do for family values is to repeal the income tax. Then families will have the resources they need to implement their own values - and not those of the politicians. With the income tax gone, families will no longer be forced to have two breadwinners by necessity. Children will be raised better, family values will predominate, and crime will diminish. If your local school indoctrinates your child with values that are alien to you, you'll have the money to buy a private education."

Harry Browne

"When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before."

H. L. Mencken

"If taxes are laid upon us without our having a legal representation where they are laid, we are reduced from the character of free subjects to the state of tributary slaves."

Samuel Adams

"Only the State legally obtains its revenue by coercion."

Murray Rothbard

"The popular narrative about climate change reflects a dangerous corruption of science that threatens the world’s economy and the well-being of billions of people. Misguided climate science has metastasized into massive shock-journalistic pseudoscience. In turn, the pseudoscience has become a scapegoat for a wide variety of other unrelated ills. It has been promoted and extended by similarly misguided business marketing agents, politicians, journalists, government agencies, and environmentalists. In my opinion, there is no real climate crisis. There is, however, a very real problem with providing a decent standard of living to the world’s large population and an associated energy crisis. The latter is being unnecessarily exacerbated by what, in my opinion, is incorrect climate science."

John Francis Clauser

"Congress can raise taxes because it can persuade a sizable fraction of the populace that somebody else will pay"

Milton Friedman

"My work is about the effect of the sun on climate, and if the sun has a decisive influence on climate, that means that the influence of CO2 is smaller. That doesn't fit with the narrative that CO2 is supposed to be such a dominant factor in global warming. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a UN organization that admits members based on area, political affiliation, and in some cases merit. My work is in fact ignored by it. In the Climategate emails, that went public in 2011, I noticed an email discussing possible authors for the IPCC's fifth assessment report. One qualification for an author had to be that he was 'anti-Svensmark'."

Henrik Svensmark

"Inflation is taxation without legislation."

Milton Friedman

"Higher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with."

Milton Friedman