On these pages over the years, I've consistently pointed out that the American public was being misled on the case for a carbon tax. For example, I used the UN's own reports to show that the popular climate change goal of limiting warming to two degrees Celsius would probably be a cure worse than the disease; i.e., that the costs of government action to mitigate climate change are higher than the benefits. I've also spent many posts warning libertarians and conservatives to be wary of claims that a carbon tax could boost conventional economic growth, since the people making this "conservative case for a carbon tax" often misrepresented the literature and ignored obvious political realities. In this context, it was refreshing to see the Manhattan Institute's Oren Cass recently write a post reaching these same conclusions.

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