Let's put aside the tears and emotions aside for one second and let's look what a carbon tax is. A carbon tax, essentially states that the polluter must bear the cost of the pollution they create. It is agnostic towards the source of the pollution created: in cars, in factories, in power plants.
In order to figure out whether or not you support a carbon tax, ask yourself two questions:
1. Do you agree or not, with the overwhelming scientific evidence that carbon pollution is creating a climate change, which is disrupting life on earth.
2. Do you agree or not, that greenhouse gases from industrial means are indeed pollution, that the cost of pollution should be beared by polluter?
If you agreed with both my questions, then you support a carbon tax. Carbon pollution has a cost, we bear it in habitat loss, agriculture loss, rising sea levels, stronger storms and droughts, heatwaves, and other climatic anomalies. If you agree with the overwhelming scientific evidence, then you agree that this is real and has real costs to humanity and the life on this planet. And by the way, my personal stance on climate change is not born out of trust for scientists, or a "belief" in the idea, but from reading a good number of scientific papers and understanding the work of thousands of scientists who research this for a living. I hope you also understand the actual evidence, the means that scientists used in discovering global warming, and it is so worrisome for the future. Also understand the denier arguments and why they suck.