If you tried to tax carbon market forces would run a massive disinformation and propaganda campaign. Market forces would spend massive amounts on campaigns electing anti tax legislators. If a tax was passed they would sue, obstruct, and lobby for years and decades constantly trying to water it down and kill it. Market forces are stronger then our democracy. We are doomed.
I would have thought this, but conservatives are actually starting to make a case for a Carbon Tax. See the most conservative voices in the Wall Street Journal today, for instance.
They'll want complete regulatory rollback in return, which will leave it to the left to decide whether it's a worthwhile trade off.
Personally, I think it is. What happened with Washington State's Carbon Tax proposal is a bad omen though. Had bipartisan consensus but fell apart due to fighting between the left and the left.
