A tax on carbon is a tax on prosperity. So much of our prosperity RELIES upon conversion of various hydrocarbons into heat energy of some sort, that this tax would be totally pervasive, and who is to say that the “carbon tax” would necessarily be limited to only “fossil fuels”?
Virtually every cell of our bodies contains some form of combined carbon, either as part of the proteins that make up our very bodily tissues, or as the fats and carbohydrates that provide the energy to even exist. Life is not separable from carbon in some form. Do we have to pay a “carbon tax” fee just to occupy our own bodies?
A “carbon tax” is one of those ideas that looks good in the abstract, but the actual implementation of a fair way to administer would escape even the most judicious of minds.
What next? Tax the very oxygen we breathe in, with some kind of meter to measure our daily consumption, and be subject to a court order to either pay up the arrears, or have the meter cut off?
Draconian does not begin to describe the cruel, grasping nature of this proposition.
Yes, Draconian, indeed. Limitless power and money for the elite dicktators.