New York Times: CONSERVATIVES don`t support tax increases that are veiled as ‘cap and trade’ schemes for pollution permits. But offer us a tax swap, and we could become the new administration`s best allies on climate change. A climate-change bill withered in Congress this summer because families don`t need an enormous, and hidden, tax increase. If the bill`s authors had instead proposed a simple carbon tax coupled with an equal, offsetting reduction in income taxes or payroll taxes, a dynamic new …