CO2 Tax Quotes – Perspectives on Environmental Levy

"rates, it is now public knowledge that the infamous American investment bank Goldman Sachs helped it – for its usual exorbitant fees – to brighten up its accounts."

Wolfgang Streeck

"The taxpayer gets literally nothing in return for the life of practical slavery he has to spend in the support of the Government."

Arthur Conan Doyle

"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

"If politicians get money to spend and don't have to be responsible for taxation, then of course that will bias their attitude toward more spending as opposed to cutting back on spending."

James M. Buchanan

"Rent control is one policy that economists universally would oppose. It is a grossly inefficient way of allocating housing space and, of course, it inhibits construction and creates the very thing it is supposed to alleviate. It is one of those things where people simply don't understand simple economics and, therefore, put in for political reasons what will damage the very people that it is designed to help. Minimum wage levels are another classic example."

James M. Buchanan

"Taxes are a permitted form of robbery."

Thomas von Aquin

"America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation."

Laurence J. Peter

"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

"Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages."

H. L. Mencken

"You can get a coalition of senators from particular states in America, for example, who want to construct highways or dams or ports which may well be very inefficient. The taxes would be paid by the people over the whole country, but the benefits would go to the few people in those particular locations. This type of spending is a rather gross waste of resources that worsened over the years as the government has been allowed to do more particularized things."

James M. Buchanan