Should Republicans support a carbon tax? Proponents of the tax tout it as an elegant, market-based policy conservatives should endorse as a way to address climate change. But there are a number of reasons conservatives shouldn’t do that.

The first problem is that a carbon tax does not measurably reduce global temperatures. The second problem is that a carbon tax can’t be implemented in a revenue neutral way that won’t harm our growing economy. Finally, voters are especially unwilling to increase their own cost of living in exchange for a policy that doesn’t work.