The fact of the matter is that by and large people don't care about "global" warming. They care about being able to afford to run their air conditioners and their big screen TV's.
I would anticipate it will be repealed in 2013 by a majority republican congress and signed into law by a Republican president.
Americans vote their pocket books. They will remember this one.
“Americans vote their pocket books. They will remember this one.”
Only if they realize it as actually being there as a tax.
The beuaty of this for the libs is it is a “hidden” tax, i.e. - no IRS demanding forms be filled out and a check sent to them, or withheld from your paycheck.
The effects of this tax will permeate into everything you purchase - and will never be isolated as being so much a part of you bill.
Think gasoline - the gasoline tax which is quite steep, is not collected by the government. It is collected by oil companies. It helps villify the oil companies as “ those mean and evil companies who make excessive profits” and are blamed for all increases in the cost of gasoline. And it is never known how much tax you are paying of the total unless you really dig deep.
And the carbon tax will be a lot more difficult to identify - once in the system, it will be virtually impossible to know how much of the bill it represents.