Sentences with phrase «turned on the carbon tax»

AUSTRALIANS have turned on the carbon tax, with almost two - thirds of people opposed to pricing greenhouse gas emissions and an overwhelming majority backing Coalition plans to unravel the policy.

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But «if anybody in Canada thinks they are going to get Donald to build a nation of windmills, and turn all America into a bicycle lane or a place for carbon taxes» — in that event, «if they are very, very polite, he'll give them a free ride on Trump Cruise Lines back to where they came from.»

Before the election, Tony Abbott spoke of turning Australia into the «food bowl of Asia» and blamed the plight of Australia's manufacturing industry primarily on the Labor government's carbon tax.

«Let's just be honest and call it a carbon tax that will increase taxes on all Americans who drive a car, who have a job, who turn on a light switch, pure and simple,» House Republican Leader John Boehner said.

Yet the economic advantages of a carbon tax are so manifest that it is still possible, once the fiscal cliff negotiations are finished and talks turn to a truly transformative tax reform deal, that leaders in Congress will begin to reconsider it, especially it if is marketed on economic grounds.

Here's what is required (leaving aside Theresa May's electorally hamstrung inability to deliver much of it): The entire cabinet and every business leader the government's black book can muster, on stage for the launch of the new strategy; an explicit declaration that this, full decarbonization of the economy, is the post-Brexit economic strategy; clear and attractive retail policies, such as a diesel scrappage scheme, tax breaks for green investment, new apprenticeships, a green home building program; an open invitation to all opposition party leaders to share a platform to support the plan with a declaration that while they may not agree on every component they fully endorse the over-arching goal; a willingness to shame those party leaders who play party politics and refuse to turn up; a fortnight - long program where each day sees a new cabinet member explain how the plan will transform parts of the economy; a Royal Commission on the flaws of GDP as an economic measure and the viability of alternative quality of life metrics; and, yes, a brave assertion that carbon intensive industries will have to transform or be scaled back, backed by a decarbonization adaptation fund to help affected communities respond to this global trend.

The question of whether to go with a carbon tax, emissions trading or a hybrid turns on two main issues.

On the plus side, Tillerson turned Exxon round from the Raymond days where they funded denialist thinktanks, and he is now funding the AGU and getting climate change recognized as the real deal while also supporting a carbon tax.

Sen. Representative John Boehner, the Senate House minority leader, has described cap - and - trade as a «carbon tax that increases taxes on all Americans who drive a car, who have a job, who turn on a light switch.»

E&E News (07/29/13) reports: «The prospect of a House vote on a carbon tax turns Rep. Fred Upton, chairman of the House Energy Committee to thoughts of, well, love.

The media are turning on the government over this carbon tax debacle and so are others like the Unions and Farmers.

Conservatives who support, or at least are willing to consider, taxing carbon emissions (yes, there are some) fall into two camps on revenue treatment: backing the carbon dividend plan proposed by the Climate Leadership Council (which in turn draws on the fee - and - dividend approach espoused by the Citizens Climate Lobby); or urging that the carbon revenues be applied to reduce the U.S. corporate income tax.