The proposed tax is basically a spending tax, much like a sales tax. It would effectively raise the price of any products&#x2F;services that rely on carbon-based energy to be made&#x2F;delivered.<p>Remind me: how does a spending tax disproportionately affect the poor? The tax goes into a local&#x2F;federal budget, where poor disproportionately benefit from it (compared to what they put in).<p>Also, the arguably biggest global challenge in the next decades is going to be to slow&#x2F;reverse the adverse effects of the global warming, which WILL disproportionately affect the poor (which have less ability to adapt or move). So how is doing something about global waring really disproportionately affecting the poor on the long run?