It&#x27;s absolutely covered by &quot;revenue neutral&quot;.<p>We tax things, but then distribute the tax revenue among the citizenry. The cost absolutely will get passed on, but that is accounted for in the end when you receive a check for ~1&#x2F;300,000,000th of the net tax paid. The increased cost of essentials would be a total wash, as presumably everyone is paying roughly the same -- except to the extent that by pricing the externality, there might be space to undercut the market with a non-polluting option where one didn&#x27;t exist before, encouraging R&amp;D.