CO2 Tax Quotes – Perspectives on Environmental Levy

A concise collection of CO2 Tax quotes presenting diverse views on climate and environmental taxation policies.

This selection of CO2 Tax quotes reflects varied perspectives on the significance and impact of environmental levies. The quotes convey economic, ecological, and social considerations associated with CO2 taxation. They encourage reflection on sustainable development and climate protection initiatives while representing different viewpoints respectfully. The collection provides thoughtful insights inviting interpretation and discussion on climate, economic, and social topics related to CO2 taxation.

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"The fundamental point has always been this: climate change is governed by hundreds of factors, or variables, and the very idea that we can manage climate change predictably by understanding and manipulating at the margins one politically-selected factor is as misguided as it gets."

Philip Stott

"Every victim of statism has internalized the State to some degree. The IRS’s annual proclamation that the income tax depends on “voluntary compliance” is ironically true. Should the taxpayer completely cut off the blood supply, the vampire State would helplessly perish, its unpaid police and army deserting almost immediately, defanging the Monster."

Samuel Edward Konkin III

"The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation."

Vladimir Lenin

"I'm pretty sure: if the climate change thing was miraculously solved, many Germans wouldn't breathe a sigh of relief. They would become afraid of something else virtually overnight."

Vince Ebert

"Nothing can make a demagogue more popular today than when he repeatedly calls for sharp taxes against the rich [...] Wealth levies and high income taxes on the larger incomes are quite extraordinarily popular with the masses who do not have to pay them."

Ludwig von Mises

"The most beautiful thing for me about Formula E is the great sound of the diesel generators that are used to charge the batteries of the racing cars!"

Ulrich Baretzky

"Someone once said that taxes are the price we pay for civilization. That may have been true when he said it, but today taxes are mostly the price we pay so that politicians can play Santa Claus and get reelected."

Thomas Sowell

"When a business or an individual spends more than it makes, it goes bankrupt. When government does it, it sends you the bill. And when government does it for 40 years, the bill comes in two ways: higher taxes and inflation. Make no mistake about it, inflation is a tax and not by accident."

Ronald Reagan