TCI Regional Policy Design Stakeholder Submissions

This initiative is not for the good of the public but for the greed of the expanding government bureaucracy and various who-you-know green industries. This initiative will destroy our economy and way of life until we are a third world country.
Do you remember Solyndra and that con? And the boondoggles of windmills and solar windfarms bought on the backs of the taxpayers?
Everyone has their hand in the tax cookie jar. Disgusting!
RI keeps burdening it's citizens with one "fee" or tax or some other cute phrase on all our utilities. Enough!
If an idea is good, private industry will quickly take it up WITHOUT the aid of the taxpayer. They have an incentive to make it succeed since it is their money.

If the government was actually competent they could balance the budget without new taxes. What will happen to the State of RI, when people leave because they cannot afford it; businesses close so there'll be no jobs and our population diminishes to the point that the tax rolls cannot cover the operating budget of the State? RI will become a welfare State of the Federal Government and lose it's independence. DO YOUR JOB!

Instituting some useless tax on fuels to fund pet project initiatives has proven to be just another way to put money in state coffers without delivering the intended results. Rhode is land thinks small and believes that everyone works within the state a never leaves. Sad that this is not true. More than half of the states residents leave RI to work in Massachusetts and Connecticut. All of these people commute. Instituting a tax on fuel will disproportionately impact these people as opposed to the 100k people who work for small businesses in the state of for one of the very few large employers.
After just implementing tolling gantries along all of RI’s highways, which everyone fears will result in not just trucks being tolled but all private vehicles within two years, the cost of commuting to work will become a major expense and will ultimately lead to RI residents fleeing the state in record numbers.
What is RI doing to bring more business tax base to the state instead of making residents foot the bill for everything. I work in Boston and RI sure as hell cant hold a candle to Boston. There are more construction cranes in one block in Boston than there are in all of Providence. How about we focus on drawing away some of the magic that Boston creates instead of imposing more stupid taxes to drive business and residents away. We just lost the Pawsox. How long before everyone moves out except for all of the illegals and those that live off of the welfare state.
Good honest, hard working professionals WILL leave this pathetic state of more taxes and less business are the goals. Just look at the attitudes that came about after all of the windmills in Johnston were put up. So much for people adopting green.
How about looking at tidal energy. We are the ocean state right. Oh no we can’t do that. That would affect Narragansett Bay. Our state treasure. No body wants anything in their own back yards. RI is so small that it doesn’t have a back yard. Green technologies take up a huge footprint. Look at all of these unsightly solar farms. We can’t even build a wind farm of our own coast. The Netherlands has a nearly 200 unit wind farm in the North Sea. Works for them. Everybody wants change, just don’t ask them to.
Implementing yet another tax will certainly force people like myself who are empty nesters to leave the state once and for all.

Apparently the politicians need a new means to fund the general fund since the 911 funds have been exposed.

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, I have been
purchasing almost all of my gas in Rhode Island at the higher price,
just so R.I. could get the tax revenue.

If R.I. adopts the TCI Initiative, all bets are off! Massachusetts here I come!

Also, I recommend voting out any, and all Representatives, Senators
or other proponents who back this TCI Initiative, regardless of there party
affiliations, be they Democrats, Independents or Republicans.
F.Y.I., these are listed in alphabetical order.
I would have included the Governor too, except she wont be there.

This Rouge Governor needs to go, if possible impeach, or any form. The best thing that could happen, is to get a Republican in office, and lose the many Union led losers in the General Assembly. The new Gas Tax, is a bad situation for every consituent, so lets see what our General Assembly finally does it anything.

Let's not come up with another crazy tax that continues and accelerates the migration of businesses from the northeast to tax friendly states. TCI is a foolish concept.

Only a public referendum supporting this policy and no new taxes would gain my support!

Weather and its relationship to long term Climate Change dynamics have always been a subject of professional interest and application for me during my active service with the United States Navy and in retirement in matters of communication with similarly interested colleagues and community members, including members of the Rhode Island House of Representative and Senate and local City Council members as it related to shoreline degradation and change and changes in the characteristics of our waterways. I am seriously concerned that much of the advocacy of persons with public administrative and political policy responsibilities have, too often identified with activities more focused on "consensus" rather than knowledge acquisition both directly and indirectly to the causes and effects of weather and long term climate results and trends and cycles. Unfortunately, for Rhode Island, the TCI Regional Policy design finds itself as completely unsatisfactory for the people of this state and needs to be rejected outright. Our Governor may have good intentions but she has been misled by the politicization of a topic which recommends a directions which may well rebound negatively to the economic and well being environment of RHode Island residents and visitors. Recent former NASA scientists and climate professionals have, in an macro set of analyses, that actions and directions as indicated by the TCI policy design begin to have a deleterious effect when about one third of the actions undertaken begin to have a negative macro effect on various carbon creation remediation activities, increasing rather than decreasing the overall carbon footprint based on the realistic need for reliable energy generation to support expansion of alternative energy activity. Additionally, this effect then expands to log kinds of trend proportions, meaning that attempts to reduce this effect until alternative energy balance is achieved costs even more than replacement benefit intended. The cost to taxpayers and ratepayers and mobile replacement remediation replacement would be enormous, again, even if only one third of the TCI policies were implemented. Recall, that tax benefit already exists to support commercial viability of alternative mobile and energy operations. The windmill experiment is supported by an infinite cost of operation escalator to keep viable. At the same time, climate claims about the albedo of the earth are being placed into doubt as the sun seems to have moved into its cooling posture and plate tectonic movements now are causing some scientists to indicated that waters are not rising in some costal venues. Rather subsidence of large portions of plates may be the cause of "deeper" waters. These conclusions need long term analysis and warn that consensus oriented policies regarding climate need much further studies before the first penny of added taxation or fees are dedicated to what in reality is consensus exaggeration. This is critical, in that, in Rhode Island, long term neglect of the infrastructure of the state has resulted in poor bridges, dams, public buildings and schools, not to mention health care facilities and the need for alternative rail and road access to places like Hartford, CT, which is going thru an economic renewal. The current TCI policy supporters have been luuled to sleep by some who claim that energy production needs from oil and natural gas are on their way out. tell that to the citizens of Middletown and Newport and some of Portsmouth. In 2019, we have a the smallest state in the union which does not have 100% residential access to natural gas lines or water lines that have been renewed or electric transmission lines that leak badly. Much need to be done now before RI decides to go on a radical "consensus" exploration. Very bad, Governor. Time to examine what benefit we get from regional committees who have done nothing for the state to have full flowing access to traditional energy, some of which leaks from Boston ports that get very cold or hot weather LNG from Russia. Time to stop this foolishness. The governor is on her way out and appears to be seeking camaraderie with public political endeavors that her party presidential candidates are highlighting to the public, it seems with not much success. Stop this endeavor. It is wrong.