Existing policy supporters abandon cap-and-trade by reframing it as a tax.

Evidence

President Obama’s original cap-and-trade proposal fell victim to the culture war (Who pays, 2009). Former active supporters of this economic remedy turned against it by reconstruing it as a tax. Using this market approach for environmental protection, they claimed, was a subterfuge to impose taxes on families that could ill afford it: “An economy-wide tax under the cover of saving the environment is the best political moneymaker since the income tax” (Who pays, 2009). Critics further reconstrued the cap-and-trade program as an infringement on freedom in which the government manufactures a right to pollute that industries are then forced to buy. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2755 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Political opponents defeated climate policy by morally reframing a market tool as coercive taxation — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2755

Broader Connections

• Political opponents defeated climate policy by morally reframing a market tool as coercive taxation #corroborates (0.93) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2755