re: #8 Tsuga

Unless you hammer home how much cheaper wind and solar have become and how much coal needs to be subsidized to stay afloat. That’ll counter the “wasteful spending” talking point easily. Between taxes, regulations, and subsidies, the third is the easiest sell in Washington DC. Giving establish for-profit companies (e.g. power utilities) free money is their MO. They do it all the time, rhetoric about waste notwithstanding.

Also, you’ve failed to counter my point about how carbon taxing/trading would be less simple than subsidizing the change. There are fewer steps involved in the later.