TCI Regional Policy Design Stakeholder Submissions

Material submitted through the TCI Public Input form from April 2019-February 2021 is viewable here. View input submitted from March 1, 2021 forward here. All material submitted on this page informed the participating jurisdictions in the 2019-2020 TCI regional policy design process. Click on the column headings to sort the submissions. 
First Last Affiliationsort ascending City State Input File
Robert DeFlurin Unenrolled Braintree Massachusetts
The Transportation Climate Initiative (TCI) proposal mean less money in the taxpayer's pocket and an even higher cost of living despite the fact that we are already near the highest in the...
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Richard Rooney unenrolled West Tisbury Massachusetts
Dear Sirs,



I strenuously object to the TCI proposal as it undermines our Constitutional protections against taxation without representation. Calling something a fee is a tax by...
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Janine Young Unenrolled Quincy Massachusetts
I voted no on this gas tax before when it was a ballot question. I do not like this TCI . Where is the transparency? As Americans that elected you to office, you have an obligation to your...
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Lorie Tudor Unemployed Wilmington Delaware
We need to do everything we can to save our beloved earth from what we are doing to it. Free bus transit is a good idea for my city. We have a lot of walkable streets but probably should assess...
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Jeff K Undeclared Attleboro Massachusetts
You people are a f*ing disgrace and saddling people that work for a living with this tax is a joke. If I ran my business the way you f*ing knit wits run this state I would get fired. Everyone of...
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Bob Hodgen Undeclared BELCHERTOWN Massachusetts
This Transportation and Climate Initiative is nothing more than a veiled attempt to apply a TAX on gasoline. We VOTED DOWN THE GAS TAX five years ago!!! So, instead of going through proper...
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Ava Jubinville Undeclared Charlemont Massachusetts
No NEW TAXES. This climate crap is just a design to penalize the citizen for breathing basically. We the people are not stupid. We are a melting ice age and that is all there is to it. No one can...
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Marsha Evans Undeclared Whitinsville Massachusetts
Please don't raise the price of gas by adding more tax on top of what we are already paying!! People outside of Boston are really struggling, and it seems that those in Boston think that...
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Jerry Shaughnessy Undecided Plymouth Massachusetts
This should be voted on it shouldn’t be something that the government just does Mr. Baker.
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Charles Albert Undecided Carver Massachusetts
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Lynn Gilbode Undecided Middleborough Massachusetts
Please do not do another tax on Massachusetts. . The middle class is struggling so much as it is
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kevin leveret unaligned white river jct Vermont
Stop d**king around with carbon pricing & cap-and-investment, and push for a comprehensive Green New Deal (we are too deep in the 6th mass extinction to settle for band-aids).
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Manuel PACHECO Unaffiliated Somerville Massachusetts
The government needs to live within its means. I fully support increasing the quality and capacity of mass transit as an MBTA user for almost 50 years. We already have excise tax and annual...
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chris zangari Unaffiliated Warwick Rhode Island
This is a classic regressive tax. I oppose the TCI. This appears an attempt to supplement the budget shortfalls of Rhode Island which are significant. This significant gas tax will...
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paul petit unaffiliated pawtucket Rhode Island
This proposal is absolutely insane for the State of Rhode Island!

( Or for anywhere else for that matter ).



With our gas prices being fairly close to nearby Massachusetts,...
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GARY LITTLEFIELD UNAFFILIATED CUMBERLAND Rhode Island
THIS IS A REGRESSIVE TAX THAT WILL NOT ACCOMPLISH YOUR GOAL. PEOPLE WILL CONTINUE TO USE GAS FOR THEIR DAILY NEEDS...INCLUDING WORK. IF AIR QUALITY IS REALLY IMPORTANT, TRUCK EMISSIONS ARE BY...
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Kevin McBride Unaffiliated Wakefield Rhode Island
With a 9.5 billion budget? NO NEW TAXES! RI Retirees are already hard enough hit! NO TO TCI! NO TO AUTO TOLLS, TOO!!!
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Michael Duhigg Unaffiliated Boxborough Massachusetts
Use clean alternative powered buses, e,g, electric or hydrogen, and set aside lanes for these vehicles. Also, develop more public parking outside cities to facilitate the use of these buses.
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DAVID MITCHELL unaffiliated CRANSTON Rhode Island
Gas taxes place a regressive tax on the working poor. Climate initiatives should be through investment, not placing additional taxes on the working poor.
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Jeffrey Leveille Unaffiliated Greenville Rhode Island
I am against the raising of gasoline taxes for the progressive cause of Transportation and Climate Initiative. It will do absolutely nothing towards mitigating the stated claims of the TCI. Its...
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