Well, making necessities more expensive is difficult to sell no matter how it’s packaged

well that’s kinda the point: in the wash, it didn’t… you paid a bit more and got that money back at tax time… any carbon tax you pay gets evenly distributed across the population, so if your carbon footprint is less than 50% of the counties, you make money

considering the carbon emitted by the top 10%, this is basically wealth redistribution and it helps tackle carbon