It's absolutely covered by "revenue neutral". We tax things, but then distribute the tax revenue among the citizenry. The cost absolutely will get passed on, b

It's absolutely covered by "revenue neutral". We tax things, but then distribute the tax revenue among the citizenry. The cost absolutely will get passed on, but that is accounted for in the end when you receive a check for ~1/300,000,000th of the net tax paid. The increased cost of essentials would be a total wash, as presumably everyone is paying roughly the same -- except to the extent that by pricing the externality, there might be space to undercut the market with a non-polluting option where one didn't exist before, encouraging R&D.