[abecedarius]

> politically no one is going to impose them at the levels needed to discourage consumption

This seems like one of those Overton-window true-if-and-only-if-the-media-say-it's-true things, like the supposed taboo against vaccine challenge trials which was recently falsified in a poll.

> where does that money go?

To the low-income people who are supposed to be the insuperable political obstacle to carbon taxes in the first place?

Politics is hard, yes, but this Overton-window kind of reasoning just drags at any real solution to anything. It's not worth any allegiance.