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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2/19/2020 | Shawn | Tibbetts | Resident | Wells | Maine |
Maine is fueled by tourism. Maine residents and visitors must drive there vehicles to go most places. Public transportation isn't a option here. Any increase in taxes on fuel only hurts... read more |
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2/24/2020 | Wendy | Buhner | Caring parent / farmer | Wells River | Vermont |
We are in support of all efforts to reduce carbon emissions and feel that any action taken in that direction is a step towards collectively caring for our planet. |
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2/21/2020 | Mary | Thomas | Wendell State Forest Alliance | Wendell | Massachusetts |
Extinctions, floods and fires are absolute evidence of catastrophic climate change. Having let the politics of profit fritter away earlier efforts to decrease our dependence on fossil fuels, at... read more |
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2/22/2020 | Jonathan | von Ranson | Franklin Regional Transit Auithority | Wendell | Massachusetts |
I haven't seen a thorough analysis of the total systemic energy commitment – not just energy used at the point of moving people and things, but also systemically embodied – in various... read more |
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10/9/2019 | Eric | Lowell | Government | Wesley | Maine |
Please be aware that, in the event of a tax increase on transportation fuel, rural Maine will be bearing a higher load than average. With no public transportation, and much higher than average... read more |
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10/25/2019 | Vinnedge | Lawrence | Grateful Undead | West Baldwin | Maine |
I am a member of the Grateful Undead organization involved in pursuing the ability of citizens living in our rural area of Cumberland, Oxford, and York counties to live in place. Transportation... read more |
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2/27/2020 | John | Paine | Citizen | West baldwin | Maine |
I travel half hour to work everyday there is no going less miles. So this tax will just make it worse and all makes me want to leave this state. We need lapage back. As for electric cars you will... read more |
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11/12/2019 | Judith | Lamson | MA resident | West Barnstable | Massachusetts |
The voters turned this down, this should not even be on the table! |
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11/12/2019 | William | Peters | Tax paying voter | West Barnstable | Massachusetts |
This is a tax without voter approval that will make small businesses and tax payers suffer. Massachusetts voters have spoken on such a tax in 2014 when a similar gas tax was voted down.... read more |
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12/3/2019 | Lisa | Morton | Unenrolled | West Boxford | Massachusetts |
The residents of MA have already voted no on the gas tax! TCI is another attempt at a gas tax in disguise. |
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12/17/2019 | Lisa M | LaPlume-Morton | Independent | West Boxford | Massachusetts |
Our 85 year old family business has been growing with our invigorated economy. More taxes are a short term answer to a long term problem. Before initiating more taxes, how about eliminating... read more |
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11/14/2019 | Peter | Borge | Independent | West Boylston | Massachusetts |
1. It is unconstitutional to impose new taxes unless a bill is introduced in the House of Representatives. This is a tax imposed by fiat. read more 2. The voters of Massachusetts made it abundantly... |
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12/1/2019 | David | Manley | American Air | West Boylston | Massachusetts |
Any tax increase should be voted on by the full state legislature . People are already strapped paying the bloated taxes in this state while read more State employees never adjust the age at which... |
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12/21/2019 | Robert | Patukonis | Painters Union | West Bridgewater | Massachusetts |
We do not need another tax. We have had enough. With the economy flourishing, there should be enough tax money for our state budget. |
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11/8/2019 | Michael | McQuade | Republican | West Brookfield | Massachusetts |
stop the TCI |
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11/8/2019 | Anne | Starzyk | independent | West Brookfield | Massachusetts |
TCI is a revenue scam--try cutting spending instead |
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11/18/2019 | William | King | MA Resident & Voter | West Brookfield | Massachusetts |
We do not need the Transportation and Climate Initiative in MA. It amounts to a carbon tax at the wholesale level and ultimately another tax read more on gas and diesel. Taxes are already too high,... |
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2/21/2020 | Howard | Iwahashi | none | West Caldwell | New Jersey |
Cleaning up the mess afterward is shortsighted and more expensive than preventing the problem. There are health issues involved as well. |
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1/16/2020 | Nicole | Gallo | individual | West Chester | Pennsylvania |
This country desperately needs to design and implement a regional low-carbon transportation system that caps and reduces carbon emissions from the combustion of transportation fuels. The best... read more |
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2/19/2020 | Jewell | McKellar | resident | West Chester | Pennsylvania |
We can cut poverty and pollution at the same time! If the needs of low income people are not addressed, they will be forced into making choices which undermine the wonderful goals of this project... read more |
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