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What a bunch of nitwits. What's wrong with redirecting the carbon tax into alternatives?
Conservatives insist on means testing everything, so make a sliding scale of combined subsidies and tax breaks that pays for low-income people to go solar and/or install heat pumps. Less subsidy, more tax break as you climb through the income levels until you reach a tipping point at which there is no subsidy and the tax break starts to disappear.
The people with both money and brains are doing this stuff anyway. The small number of people with money and no brains will get taken care of by making building codes that require new construction and certain renovations to include solar and heat pumps and by pushing the carbon tax ever higher over time.
And think of all the jobs! Get some existing trades people with the right qualifications some training in the delivery of training and encourage them to open up their shops as training centres, then pay the tuition of anyone who enrolls so that there are enough people to do the work.
That's probably an oversimplification, but that's what smart bureaucrats are for, so stop gutting the public service and put them on the case.