History is full of valuable lessons. Did you know that during the Chinese civil war when the KMT Nationalists and War Lords controlled the country there were wide spread famines, despite China's ample bounty of arable land. The taxes on the people were so oppressive - and the War Lords would just come and seize your assets anyway - that it was far, far easier for people to just walk away from their farms and leave them fallow. 

Taxes are the single largest expense in my household. I imagine its the same for many households. As the burden increases, many people will "walk away from the farm". When you work most of your life away, and lose 40-50% off the top, as carbon taxes are indirectly paid for by increases in price to consumers, many people will ask why they should bother. I'm asking my self now. Why not sell off the house, drop my career for a stress free part time gig and live off the investment income from the house. I'll be societies problem when I'm old and broke, OAS is free.