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This attitude of imposing pain that maps trivially to regressive taxation on lower- and middle-class voters is not a good look for the green left.

You can obviously compensate by changing other taxes to be more progressive, this is such a silly argument.

A nuance is perhaps lost, I'm not saying don't do it, merely that simplistic messaging feeds into the binary crisis.

Sure but that doesn't happen. Start by doing that, not by implementing the regressive part first.