What is your self defined 'larger point'?

This? 'You can't make people (feel) poorer when implementing (mostly symbolic) measures to save the world.'

This statement if it is your larger point is full of holes- the biggest obvious one is that climate change is a GLOBAL problem and so any action taken by any jurisdiction will be only proportional in relation to that jurisdictions size globally but this is where the difficulty is- nobody with your mindset wants to take responsibility for their share of the problem- because what any jurisdiction can do can always be portrays as insignificant on a global scale- what you completely miss is that this is a problem that requires all jurisdictions to do their bit toward solving the problem rather than denying there is a problem and making excuses for doing nothing.

You then say-

' Good riddance, carbon taxes. May you never return to the civilized world.'

Or do you deny human caused climate change?

You do not offer any credible alternative to the carbon taxes you criticise- you leave the 'larger problem' of climate change itself unsolved and implicitly, denied.

Your implicit denial of climate change is a reckless irrational, unscientific, irrational and untenable position for anyone who asserts it. The evidence of human caused climate change is now undeniable.

It is not a problem that market forces can logically address because climate change is due to consequences of human actions which do not provide any meaningful market driven disincentive or penalty to the beneficiaries and initiators of those actions.