Well, so much for Gary Johnson

He wants a carbon tax to "fight global warming":

Libertarian Party presidential nominee and former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson said he’s no skeptic of man-made global warming and endorsed a “fee” on carbon dioxide emissions.

So why a tax?  I mean, these are libertarians (excuse me: Libertarians).  You'd think that they'd want a market.  The problem there is that we've seen a market tried, and it collapsed from all the fraud:

The alternative to a carbon tax is a carbon market, but as the European experience demonstrates, carbon markets lead to massive corruption and inevitable collapse.

The reason is very simple – with a carbon market, unlike a real market, fraud benefits all the market participants.

Fraud benefits the issuers of fake carbon credits – they get to make money for nothing.

Fraud benefits the purchasers of carbon credits – a flood of fake carbon credits keeps prices down.

Fraud benefits market regulators – they get rich turning a blind eye to the fraud.

The only people carbon fraud doesn’t benefit is anyone silly enough to think that market based carbon pricing can make a long term difference to CO2 emissions.

And so, the tax.  That will never collapse from rent seekers gaming the system (*cough* E.P.A. *cough*).  You'd think that the problem here would be blindingly obvious for a Libertarian.

Bah.  I even voted for him last time around.  But if this is what Libertarian looks like, then no thanks. But then, I'm not a libertarian.