Nina Easton Quotes

The reason we should do a carbon tax is because it's the right thing to do. It's economics 101, elementary stuff.

Well, I'm not saying that an emissions tax is ever going to be good policy.

Nothing could be more regressive than carbon taxes.

Nobody in this country realizes that cap-and-trade is a tax - and it's a great big one.

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

The Liberal carbon tax is just about raising revenue for government.

I can tell you that a carbon tax will be a total economic disaster.

I say just put a big fat tax on carbon.

The Kyoto treaty has failed, and it's failed even in Europe, which has had cap and tax since 2005.

The carbon tax is the single biggest rolled gold example of Federal Labor not listening.

Many scientists and economists also say putting a price on carbon through carbon taxes and/or cap-and-trade is necessary.

The market does not work in energy...Carbon has to have a value. Today in the U.S. and China it has no value

All taxes discourage something. Why not discourage bad things like pollution rather than good things like working or investment?

We should tax what we burn, not what we earn.

Some people who oppose a carbon tax do so only because they don’t want the government to have a big role. The irony is that by opposing it, they assure that the government will have a big role dealing with the effects of climate change

Part of what the carbon tax does is make Canada less competitive.

The whole action around a carbon pricing mechanism, or carbon tax, is what you do with the money. Both France and Washington state proposed solving climate on the backs of workers. And that's a bad strategy.

Many have criticized a federal carbon tax, saying that it would increase energy costs. Some continue to oppose it even when that revenue would be used to reduce other taxes in what's known as a tax swap.

The Liberals would love to have people believe that the choice is a carbon tax or nothing. I reject that.

Canadians didn't vote for a carbon tax. Justin Trudeau campaigned, promised that he wouldn't create a carbon tax.

The lesson for the next U.S. president: Raise the taxes on fuel. A lot.

Recently though, our State Governments have discussed instigating a carbon trading scheme - the details are still to be decided - and that's an encouraging sign.

Tax what you burn not what you earn.

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.

Because cap and trade is enforced through the selling and trading of permits, it actually perpetuates the pollution it is supposed to eliminate.