[adrianN]

Most people who are in favor of a carbon tax are also in favor of a carbon dividend, where most of the carbon tax money is paid out again. Since poor people usually emit below average amounts of carbon, they'd come out ahead in such a scheme.

[tunesmith]

I don't understand this - emitting an "average" amount of carbon is still too much.

I mean, if a person is so poor that they are emitting less than the average amount emitted before the industrial revolution, then yes, maybe they should come out ahead. But that's not what we're talking about here. We're not aiming at a comfortable rate of adding carbon to the atmosphere, we actually have to stop increasing the amount of carbon in the atmosphere.