Letter: If we could fix the climate for free, would we do it?

In her column “If even France can’t figure out a climate policy, what hope is there for the U.S.?” Catherine Rampell writes that instead of using a carbon tax to pay down the deficit, the French government “should have rebated the money to the public, most generously to those least able to absorb the tax (the poor) or reduce their carbon emissions (those in suburbs and rural areas).”This describes the bipartisan Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act (HR 763). Th