Debt and Carbon taxes are unrelated

I understand why the Republicans haven't proposed a carbon tax--they, after all, aren't worried about the deficit Brad

If the issue is just collecting taxes, then I think we debunked the notion that people see taxpaying as fun and exciting. He quotes Ryan Avent:

When we emit carbon into the atmosphere, we impose a tiny negative cost on society as a whole in the form of more rapid global warm and a greater intensity of the accompanying social ills.

Who educates these idiots? Why would transferring the global warming costs from one sector to another help?

This is a pretty straightforward policy solution, and it's one that's been embraced by economists and various other wonks for years....

More bullshit. Smart economists calculate both sides of the trade. Ryan has no model for how government is going to spend its collected  do-re-me.  Let me give Ryan a hunch, government is less energy efficient than the private sector.  Want a pointer? Look at the rise in oil prices and imports whenever Congress tries a stimulus stunt.