Not saying it is the solution, but what about a national sales tax, and drop the income tax. Pay to play, and everyone gets hit based on purchases, not income. Black Market goes nuts, theft to supply it goes up for sure, but you want that big screen TV? Pitch in.
Not sure I follow. Lots of things are important for life. There is already a federal gas tax. You think the founding fathers are rolling in their graves about that? Maybe so, but I bet they're more upset about our bloated IRS.
I recommend reading Fossil Future by Alex Epstein. Taxing carbon is asinine because it discourages the production of cost effective plentiful energy. The stated goals that the proponents of carbon reduction claim are not realistic i.e. a reduction in carbon sufficient to reduce global temperatures by a fraction of a degree will wreck global economies.
The impact of carbon in the atmosphere on temperature has a hard limit and the effect on temperature decreases asymptotically. Carbon reduction goals were never about global warming and have always been about centralized control of economic activity to create dependency on government. Newsome's California is the leading example. They have legislated an end to petroleum powered vehicles while facing an energy crisis that has their electrical grid at the breaking point and at the same time are telling citizens to avoid charging electric vehicles because the current level of electric vehicles outstrips the capacity of their electric grid.
So, no. Taxing carbon is never the right answer to a sane question.
This article on Biden's new rules for home appliances illustrates the folly of the left's obsession with carbon and CO2. It makes life worse and more expensive and the theoretical benefits are never attained.
Self described moderates that tacitly or actively support net-zero or carbon output restrictions really need to read more data driven analysis such as Fossil Future.
And yet they pursue this when even some of the same people pushing it have said it's already impossible to achieve their goals. It's a massive wealth transfer scheme. That's all it's ever been which they now openly acknowledge.
And we are going to pay the price of it because industry just goes along with it.
