Images: Reuters/Zuma Press Composite: Mark KellyToo many Republicans these days have lost their economic bearings. Look no further than a GOP Senate bill that would enact a carbon tariff—i.e., a new tax. The Foreign Pollution Fee Act, sponsored by Louisiana’s Bill Cassidy and South Carolina’s Lindsey Graham , could well have been written by the Sierra Club and AFL-CIO. Among the carbon tariff’s biggest advocates is Donald Trump’s former trade adviser Robert Lighthizer , who favors tariffs in principle. So it’s worth deconstructing the misleading arguments that Mr. Cassidy and others are making for climate protectionism.

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Persons: Mike Johnson, Mark Kelly, Louisiana’s Bill Cassidy, Carolina’s Lindsey Graham, Donald Trump’s, Robert Lighthizer, Cassidy Organizations: Zuma, GOP Senate, Sierra Club, AFL Locations: China