Eli5 what carbon taxes do exactly?

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Can someone explain how carbon taxes offset the negative environmental impact fossil fuels have on our environment?

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Probably the simplest explanation.

Here in California – gas is $5.17 a gallon.

If gas was $50 a gallon, regular people couldn’t afford it, and as result, only the rich could afford to pollute.

That’s the approach to environmentalism that’s popular here.

If we do this companies, they just charge us more. If you tell grocery stores that meat is polluting, and that have to pay $5 a lb in tax on it. Then the company will just charge you $5 a lb more for it.

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