TCI Regional Policy Design Stakeholder Submissions

Another form of extortion by Gov. Baker & his hacks on the MA taxpayers.
The taxpayers are already over burdened with increasing Property Taxes, not to mention excise taxes sales taxes, and transfer fees.
Enough..NO, NO, A THOUSAND TIMES NO! Got that Governor!
If you want climate change, start with China.

We need to increase the mass transit availability and reduce the number of cars on our roads. We need a comprehensive plan that will require localities to work together to solve this problem.

Given that Global Climate change is progressing even faster than Scientists determined a few years ago, base upon last Falls UN Report, we need to take all reasonable steps to reduce our use of carbon fuels and promote renewable energy sources. My understanding of this agreement moves the Northeast States in that direction. There is no time to waste if we hope to stem the worst impacts of climate change.

It is important that New York join this effort for low-carbon transportation. While New York has low per capita emissions of carbon dioxide compared with the rest of the US these emissions are still several fold too high and the largest component is from transportation mostly from cars and trucks. New York cannot adequately address climate change without fully addressing transportation. This is particularly true in the suburbs where I live where transportation is typically the number one source of emissions. A greenhouse gas inventory found that in my town of Mount Kisco about 40% of emissions are from the transportation sector. Suburbs have been essentially built for transportation by car and dealing with this must be a priority in any plan to reduce emissions.

I support the Obama era, or stricter, clean car standards. Climate change deniers must not be allowed to weaken vehicle efficiency standards. We already are suffering the consequences of climate change. Our leaders must take advantage of every means to halt and reverse the upward trend in global temperatures and to lessen the effects of the changing climate.

TCI = TAX = $5.00 Per Gallon Gas Prices = HIGHWAY ROBBERY.

It is a guarantee that this will happen if Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker and his Left Wing Democrat fellow travelers are permitted to enact this monstrosity. This has already happened in California.

This TCI Carbon Tax nonsense is a solution to a problem that does not exist. There is no man-made climate problem.

Alleged mankind caused Global Warming, Climate Change, Extreme Weather, or whatever the Moonbat Liberal Left is calling it these days is the biggest hoax being perpetrated since the first Ponzi Scheme. This is all just a great big excuse to ruin the economy of the United States by destroying just about every one of our industries (energy, automobile, steel, agriculture etc . . .), and to redistribute income from those who have earned it to those who have not.

There is no proof, fake computer modeling aside, that we as a nation have done anything to impact global temperature, or that we could do anything in the future that could significantly change global climate.

We have had hurricanes, tornadoes, worldwide cooling and worldwide warming since the beginning of time, and we will continue to have them until the end of time. Nothing that we as a people can cumulatively do, or refrain from doing, will change this reality even a little bit.

The sole result of the TCI Carbon Tax will be to impoverish the working people of Massachusetts. Enactment of the TCI Carbon Tax will have no environmental impact whatsoever. The money collected from Massachusetts taxpayers from the TCI Carbon Tax may as well be flushed down the toilet.

Transportation and land use are inextricably intertwined. We need to invest in development that is transportation-centric, and stop investing in a sprawling, unsustainable development model. Future development in the state must be in cities, town centers, and near transit stations. We need more density of development, but with safeguards against the gentrification-driven price increases that drive lower income families further away from access to transportation. And the plan needs to deal wit the "last mile", it needs to get people from home to jobs without two hours worth of multiple poorly connected modes of transportation.