Why doesn't the US have a carbon tax????

[Pres Mike]

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/10/26/climate-polity-china-us-00123510

The EU, Canada, Japan and UK have had a carbon tax for years. It raises revenue, doesn't affect economic growth and lowers carbon emissions! By a lot!

If the US was to put a carbon tax, it could raise up to 310 billion a year! Perhaps 1.7 trillion over 10 years! And it would make American made products more competitive at home and abroad compared to Chinese goods! Just for reference, universal pre-k in the US would cost 200 billion over 10 years.
https://taxfoundation.org/research/all/federal/carbon-tax/

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-potential-role-of-a-carbon-tax-in-u-s-fiscal-reform/#:~:text=We%20find%20that%20the%20carbon,the%20use%20of%20the%20revenue.

Apprently, President Biden considered doing a carbon tax with BBB but was dropped with the expectation that Joe Manchin wouldn't support it.

Historically, it was a bipartisan idea. Even John McCain's 2008 platform called for it

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

You answered your own question in the post:

Apprently, President Biden considered doing a carbon tax with BBB but was dropped with the expectation that Joe Manchin wouldn't support it.

[Pheurton Skeurto]

Because then oil companies would not have as much money, which is more important than anything else.

[Born to Slay. Forced to Work.]

Lobbyists

[GM Team Member and Deputy PPT WB]

Bribery. Er, “campaign contributions”. If you make bribery legal then yknow…

[Person Man]

Don’t think about it too hard.

[GP270watch]

  The awful institution that is the Senate allows one person to block American progress.

[Reactionary Libertarian]

It’s a great policy but subsidies are way more popular.

[TML]

This is what happens when special interests have outsized influence in public policy.