TCI Regional Policy Design Stakeholder Submissions

Please don't foist a gas tax on us and disguise it as some kind of "initiative". It's a tax and taxes should be raised through the legislature. If our legislators are afraid to add a gas tax because of possible voter disapproval, it shouldn't be done at all.

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.

this is over kill by the governor , ri is last place for running a business in this country , we have a severe decline in people in this state , they are leaving because of our elected officials failure . we have some of the highest property taxes as well as the highest electric rates in the country . more business are leaving this state than are coming here . as business leave so does all the money they pour into this state . the rest of the country is doing good but not ri . a 10 billion dollar budget for a state this small is wrong , we can thank gina for that . truing ti hire some one in ri is very hard to do . people have left for better opportunity else ware , wake up ri politicians . you seem to only care about special interest

This tax is a fraud. It is simply feel good legislation that imposes additional taxes without any benefits. Our politicians can only think in terms of taxes and power. I already pay enough to register vehicles in the State of Maine. I don't need to pay even more in gas taxes for no reason other than to get more of our money.

we are last place in the country to run a small business . this is another nail in the coffin of all business . we have the highest electric cost . we have some of the highest property taxes , as well as car taxes . have you taken the time to notice that no new companies are coming to ri . have you notice that we are about to lose a house rep because so many people are leaving ri . 10 1/2 billion budget for a state this small ? our governor has nothing to loose . she will be gone not soon enough and we will be left we the damage she has done to our great state . as a business owner I am opposed to this tax because nothing is made in ri and every thing has to be brought into ri from out of state . add this tax as well as the truck and car road tax and the end result is that business looses again . how many more business have to go belly up or leave ri before our legislators understand that you are taxing us out of existence.

•I am a concerned citizen who would like my grandchildren to inherit a livable earth & climate.
•The carbon price must be high enough to have the desired effect of reducing carbon emissions.
•There should be a strong component of social equity
•I think it is excellent that this project is bipartisan.

New York and other eastern states must cut the pollution coming from current transportation systems, to help cut global warming and all the negative effects it is having on climate change. All feasible alternative energy sources must be considered and we need to encourage our colleges and universities to work on new innovations to reduce power usage, reduce pollution and increase use of efficient mass transportation.

I very strongly approve this. Let’s do as much as we can to combat climate change, as soon as possible. I ‘m excited to see a high-impact, regional approach to tackling carbon emissions in lieu of any action by our federal government.