IMO, a carbon tax is simply a way to allow rich companies to keep doing what they're doing. Hell, I recall when an Ontario company that made literally scores of millions per year was fined at a rate of $50,000/month for some sort of polluting they were doing (waterways if I recall correctly). Anyway, they paid the fines that amounted to $600,000/year. No problem. That didn't do shit about stopping the polluting, however.

It's like my buddy who found it cheaper to pay parking tickets than find and pay for a parking lot. There was only a few dollars difference, and the six block walk wasted more of his time than he cared to have wasted. These types of taxes are, imo, BS.