TCI Regional Policy Design Stakeholder Submissions

Taxpayers voted NO on gas tax and now we are going to be taxed on gas??? What happened to the legislative process? My vote is no gas tax. There are plenty of ways to save $ in this state, like removing officials' commuting fuel reimbursement. That would save millions. The average person pays for their own gas. Lawmakers should too.

ABSOLUTELY NO NEW TAXES, FEES OR OTHER COSTS TO BE IMPOSED ON THE BELEAGURED TAX PAYERS AND DRIVERS OF MASSACHUSETTS

Please keep your cash grabbing self promoting ideas to yourselves. To raise my taxes without any legislative representation is akin to how the American Revolution started. You have apparently deemed yourselves smarter and more compassionate about the environment than those you wish to force to pay for your nonsense. Even if enacted, the impact would be minuscule, yet the impact on the taxpayer, business owner and driver would be monumental. Perhaps you don't mind paying more at the pumps, or in stores for merchandise and services but I for one do mind. All of this in the name on making yourselves feel better? That you have done something good for the environment? It all comes at the expense of our freedom and basic representation and is not a price I'm willing to pay.

I can't believe what is happening to the state I was born and raised in. This is just another name for a tax. As a senior citizen who struggles, this additional cost is really going to hurt. We have to make choices. Do I cut back on groceries or prescriptions. Also you are driving our young people away. My son and DIL has sold their home and are moving to NH because of the taxation in this state. My daughter and SIL are looking at relocating next year, My best friend just informed me her son has just sent out resumes looking to relocate out of state. These are 3 educated couples. Can Massachusetts afford to alienate more residents?

It’s wrong for the Governor to pursue a tax increase without a legislative vote. Lawmakers are being completely excluded from the process, despite this being the exact task they were elected to carry out.

Are you folks crazy. We voted a gas tax down, you people are not listening. Your driving us into New Hampshire again.

I am strongly opposed to the Transportation and Climate Initiative and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts' potential participation in it. I do not believe that control of CO2 emissions from combustion of transportation fuels is a legitimate or a socially beneficial onjective of state legislation. To the extent that such regulation is nonetheless deemed necessary, it should be regulated through fuel tax policy, voted on and administered by the state legislature, not through an opaque and unaccountable regional authority. Further, many aspects of the proposed initiative involve delegations of power and authority substantially unrelated to the stated objective. I believe that this entire program is a special interest power grab to achieve new regulatory and taxing authority, outside of the normal legislative and executive processes.

Another attempt to thwart the democratic process and ignore the will of the people by a bunch of unelected bureaucrats whose only goal is to increase their own power at the expense of the people. If this is such a great idea, why are they afraid of the people's elected representatives voting on a tax increase? I am not opposed to a gas tax increase in principle, but debate it in the light of day, in the Legislature, not by skulking through a labyrinth of bureaucratic offices, hidden from the people!

Once again Massachusetts is leading the region in yet another “ progressive” initiative designed to dupe hardworking taxpayers into what amounts to a thinly veiled tax that was ALREADY VOTED DOWN! Enough already...