OK, so I pay for carbon. Just who am I paying the price to? Is it someone that produced the carbon? Well... no. Is it to someone that “owns” the carbon? Well, I suppose, just as much as paying extortion to any powerful gang is.
A 50% cut goes to big government, the rest to human pigs that vote for bigger government. If the leftists really were concerned about CO2, a free market company could extract CO2 from the air for less than $215.65/ton, but there is not even a thought to use that confiscated wealth to do that.