French need tax relief and loosened economic rules.
Well, that's effectively killed any movement toward a nationwide carbon tax here in the United States if there ever was one. What Democratic trifecta wants to deal with a taxpayer revolt?
I suspect there has been some tax relief already, but it benefited the rich.
Anger is understandable when you raise taxes and cut social services, all of this accompanied by an arrogant governing style. Said this, reducing carbon emissions is urgent. The last reports are unequivocal, climate change advances more quickly than predicted and we are running out of time. Therefore it is indispensable to devote massive effort and resources, even at the cost of creating unrest by rising fuel taxes.
The problem, again, is that the anger of common people is fully justified when there's no solidarity in the effort. In other words: the rich must pay more taxes than the poor, by an amount proportional to the wealth they possess.
