TCI Regional Policy Design Stakeholder Submissions

Enough with TAXES!! Stop this Climate Change B/S. The USA will be strangled with all this regulation all the while, other Counties carry on doing as they please. TCI go away.....you nuts find something do other than digging around my pockets.

Thank you for working toward this important mission. I am concerned that cap and invest is complicated and could be easily tweaked so that it may not truly accomplish these important goals. Are there more direct ways to accomplish this? Also, I think it would be very important to consider how air transportation fits in this plan. I also wonder about the benefits of improved rail systems for people and freight.

I want a cap on carbon emissions of at least 99% by 2032 and an an increase in the minimum investment in overburdened and underserved communities (>99%). I request that investments be put towards active transportation like better sidewalks, bicycle infrastructure, and high quality public transit.

What we need are alternatives made easy for regular people to employ -- such as biking more with safer and better bike lanes, walking more with sidewalks in every neighborhood, and sensible, affordable, and widely connecting mass transit as a daily alternative to the individual motorized vehicle.

Also a cap on carbon emissions by 2025.

This is essentially adding a tax on fuel without calling it a tax. It will result in higher prices for taxpaying citizens who need fuel to get to work. This will hurt our economy and ultimately will do very little to help the environment.

I am retired, and ANY increase in the gasoline tax or adding some lame carbon tax idea affects my ability to survive in this state. While local taxes and fees have continued to rise, it seems that the Governor and the Massachusetts Legislature are always looking for ways to take more money from my household.
This is not some abstract concept or idea, it is reality. Many retirees are just hanging on by a thread. We can't afford to buy electric vehicles, nor can we realistically be expected to maintain our dignity and our homes when you people continue to come up with ideas that hurt the elderly, lower income citizens, and people on fixed incomes. These two taxes/fees will hurt those in a lower income bracket, but apparently, you only care about us when it's time to ask for our vote.
I always knew the Democrat-led legislature was all about raising taxes and fees, but this so-called Republican Governor is the biggest phony I have ever seen. Perhaps, like so many other Massachusetts politicians, he believes his press clippings, and thinks he could run for President down the road, like his fellow former liberal Governor Devol Patrick. Why not run right now, Charlie Baker? Get the hell out of office you liberal POS!

Without clean air and water we are DOOMED as a society. Please don’t screw these basic necessities up forever!

I feel this will produce a beurocracy that will tax and spend money on something that will do a absolutely nothing to reduce carbon emissions. I do not want the State of Maine to have anything to do with this money grab scam.

My wife and I are opposed to this TCI plan. There is still no foolproof alternative to our present mode of transportation. From what I have seen the energy use to create electric MV's is equivalent or greater than what is used to operate gasoline MV's. My car gets 30+ PPG and frankly I cannot the cost of the electric cars.
We do not think that enough positive and honest proof has been obtained to make the case for forcing our citizens to environmentally accepted MV's. There seems to be two versions of so called climate change and until more positive proof is shown than it is unfair and un-American to force such taxes on us to make us change our methods of transportation. It is a bad deal to force cultural change on people via taxation. I urge that this problem be given much thought and alternative methods be carefully looked at before we are taxed just for a reason that is yet to be proven.