The tax is not on carbon. If it were, it would be on ALL living beings, including plants. Carbon is involved in complex molecules in all living things, and many inanimate things.
So it’s not on carbon. It’s on the fuels that are essential to transportation and production/manufacturing. Those are the “means of production” that marxists want so much for the collectivity to own. They can’t seize them just yet. So they do the next best thing: tax the hell out of them.
They have succeeded in controlling the meaning of the word “carbon.” They have turned it into something evil.
Exactly! Harmless CO2 has been transformed into this big dirty, soot-ridden demon called Carbon, by the propagandists.