Tacking any kind of tax on anything remotely called climate change is utterly ridiculous.
You should tell this to the President. Although I do not speak for him, I suspect he and his advisors as well as the Congressional Republican leadership know they have to keep the Republican caucus together. This means having a package that can be supported by members that may not be with Trump on every issue. I don’t know that a carbon tax will be part of the deal. I do know that, prior to this idea, Paul Ryan said he couldn’t get taxes on working and job-creating down as far as President Trump wants, without busting the budget. Maybe a carbon tax can make the whole package work budget-wise as well as politics-wise. Some people might say that if making deals that involve some concession to climate change is “utterly ridiculous,” maybe we should just give up trying to make America great again. What I know is that Donald Trump didn’t put the time and money into his campaign that he did in order to score a moral victory.