The Left will never admit that the Carbon Tax is in reality a tax on Capitalism. It is a tax to stifle economic growth. It is a tax to create more economically deprived people so as to increase the number of Leftist voters.
Global Warming is a scare tactic being used to justify limiting or retarding economic growth in the name of environmental protectionism.
This coming from a the Chinese, who have been putting one new coal fired power plant on line every two and a half weeks for several years now.
Most of them burring high sulfur coal.