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.
Date | First | Last | Affiliation | City | State | Input | File |
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10/31/2019 | Sandra | McDougal | Republican | Fort Fairfield | Maine |
For the first time in my life, I am working a second job to sustain myself. I have been doing this for three years. I work a second job to basically pay for oil, as the heating season extends... read more |
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10/31/2019 | Clyde | Jerome | Owner | Prospect | Maine |
Putting a tax on heating fuel or Diesel fuel or Kerosene or gasoline or propane will definitely hurt Maine people, The other impact will be in the making of asphalt because of less driving, the... read more |
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10/31/2019 | William | Spaulding | Republican by necessity. | Brooks | Maine |
A D behind anyone's name equals DISQUALIFIED because of idiotic policies like deliberately making energy costs higher. Leave me alone. I can spend the money I earn more efficiently than the... read more |
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10/31/2019 | Jordan | Bastedo | Concerned voter | Baileyville | Maine |
Taxation is theft. We’re already taxed enough as it is. Quit using something that naturally occurs as a method to force more control over those that you represent. |
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10/31/2019 | Rita | Buttery | Democrat | Passadumkeag | Maine |
Mainers cannot afford any more increases in taxes on gas and fuel..We can barely afford the prices now... |
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10/31/2019 | John | Scott | Independent | Turner | Maine |
No more gas tax....dssi here...and a lot of older people can't afford it.... read more |
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10/31/2019 | Lynwood | Toole | Downeast | Alexander | Maine |
I work out on the road to the extent of 90,000mi per year! Why do I have to do this it isn't by choice! I live in the most depressed county in the United States! Where u cant make a decent... read more |
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10/31/2019 | Janet | Chapman | Republican | Hancock | Maine |
Maine cannot afford to pay extra taxes on something that is paramount to our survival. Number 1 - we cannot have electric cars given we have power outages all the time and - what would we do?... read more |
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10/31/2019 | Julie | Gross | N/A | Auburn | Maine |
I feel that this is so unfair. Yes I am all for lowering the use of fossil fuel fuel but not this way. Why should those who can't afford these electric vehicles be forced to pay higher gas... read more |
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10/31/2019 | David | Berry | Maine Resident | Belfast | Maine |
Not good for Maine and not good for Maine people. |
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10/31/2019 | Michael | Larrabee | Mr. | St. Albans | Maine |
It;s all a big scam so that the state and other federal agencies can line their pockets with our hard earned money |
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10/31/2019 | Kenneth | Ames | Concerned Citizen | Waldoboro | Maine |
Governor Mills gas tax is not a reasonable option for Maine! Nothing needs to be done about carbon emissions in this state period! |
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10/31/2019 | Marc | Gagnon | Independent | Chester | Maine |
I believe that this action will be detrimental for the working class people of the State of Maine. Most people who live and work in the rural areas of Maine will have to pay more in fuel costs in... read more |
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10/31/2019 | Mitchell | Nunan | Lobsterman | Kennebunk | Maine |
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10/31/2019 | Gregory | Farmer | Citizen | Monmouth | Maine |
We can not afford any additional taxes. The state, nation and world need to live within their means like the read more averages person does. If you want to finance this than all who want it can take... |
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10/31/2019 | Patricia | Pereira | Republican voter | Orrington | Maine |
We cannot afford a gas tax raise. Please reconsider hour decision and put Mainers first by not raising the gas tax. |
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10/31/2019 | Paul | Scharping | Republican | Shapleigh | Maine |
As a retired veteran on a fixed income, I think this plan is just another way to exact a tax on the citizens of Maine. Until my retirement from the army and my social security get cost of living... read more |
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10/31/2019 | Benay | Vania | 1950 | Parsonsfield | Maine |
I OPPOSE the gas tax for Mainers. NO NO NO If the state needs more money.....hold a yard sale ........like a lot of people do for extra income. |
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10/31/2019 | Elisabeth | Echevarria | Maine resident | Falmouth | Maine |
We do not need additional gasoline taxes in Maine. Governor Janet Mills is spending our money like a drunken sailor and now she wants to gauge us further! NO, NO, NO NO! |
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10/31/2019 | George | Carr | Mainer | Ashland | Maine |
I am from Northern Maine, you know, `the other Maine". We pay enough for our gas here. Enough with the price gouging! ITS bad enough that you have forgotten about us, NO NEW GAS HIKES!!!!!.... read more |
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