January 15, 2019
The Alliance for Market Solutions today announced that Carlos Curbelo, former member of the U.S. Congress, and Glenn Hubbard, dean…
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INSIGHT: How Republicans Should Respond to Fiscal and Climate Forecasts
December 19, 2018
With each passing year, warnings about fiscal deficits and climate change become increasingly ominous. Some Republicans avoid these issues and…
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Young evangelicals want climate action; Republicans should pay attention
December 8, 2018
For the first time in a decade, a bipartisan climate bill was introduced in the U.S. Congress. The Energy Innovation and…
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A Conservative Case for a Carbon Tax. No, Seriously.
December 6, 2018
Subsidies and fuel efficiency standards are terrible ways to effect change.
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Carbon tax supporters say Trump wrong on French riots
December 5, 2018
American carbon tax supporters say it’s unfair to draw too many conclusions from the unrest in France over new motor…
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Tax credits for electric vehicles are a lousy way to reduce carbon emissions
December 4, 2018
Earlier this week, President Trump threatened to take away General Motors’ subsidies for electric cars in retaliation for its recently announced plan to shutter…
View MoreBut where can revenue scorers get the $1 trillion over 10 years the border tax was supposed to raise? Well, ahem, a carbon tax is also a consumption tax. To make it acceptable to free marketers, it would have to come with a full stop to all climate-related mandates and subsidies including fuel-mileage rules. It would also have to be clear that all carbon-tax proceeds are being used to cut payroll or income taxes.
The Wall Street Journal, February 17, 2017
HOLMAN JENKINS JR.
The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board
What I find, Republicans and Democrats can disagree about what to do about what we are learning, but everybody, everybody on both sides of the aisle believes that we should study and understand what is happening to the planet because it is changing and everybody knows that.
Axios, June 27, 2018
JIM BRIDENSTINE
NASA Administrator
Those who believe the climate is not changing might do well to use the possibility that it is as an excuse to reach a goal that has always eluded conservatives. Here is an opportunity to transfer the tax burden from work to consumption, from payroll taxes to, dare I say it, a carbon tax.
The Weekly Standard, March 13 2017
IRWIN STELZER
Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute
I mean there is a clear externality presented by a carbon use and climate change and the typical remedy for that is putting a price as a tax, and then economist have debated over time whether that tax should be a sliding scale, how it should be said, that’s a design feature, but it is clearly the most efficient way to deal with the problem.
Columbia Energy Exchange podcast, April 2, 2018
GLENN HUBBARD
Dean of the Columbia Business School
[A carbon tax] would be a strategy to control emissions that is consistent with conservative principles.
The Hill, July 31, 2018
DOUGLAS HOLTZ-EAKIN
President of American Action Forum
Elected officials owe it to every American, and especially to younger generations who are understandably concerned about the future, to work on a comprehensive solution to mitigate and adapt to climate change.
Statement after introducing first-of-its-kind carbon tax legislation on July 23, 2018
CONGRESSMAN CARLOS CURBELO
U.S. Representative of Florida’s 26th District
What we need is a new approach to energy tax and regulation that advances our strategic policy objectives and recognizes that the period of scarcity that began in the 1970s is over. That is best achieved by getting rid of—literally repealing—a host of tax subsidies and regulatory requirements and replacing them with a carbon tax.
The Daily Caller, March 8, 2018
JOHN W. ROWE
Chairman Emeritus of Exelon Corporation
