TCI Regional Policy Design Stakeholder Submissions

I'm disgusted by this scam attempt to once again increase the gas tax on hard working citizens of Massachusetts. An increased gas tax was recently repealed just a few short years ago by the voters of Massachusetts. Stop gouging us. I find it incredibly cowardly to foist this upon the citizenry by hiding it behind a collaboration of states efforts to reduce carbon. This is a farce and unconstitutional. If you want to raise the gas tax then propose a bill in the legislature on which each and every elected legislator will have to have their vote recorded and scrutinized by their constituents.

People who listen to Howie Carr know what TCI really is. The people of Massachusetts are fed up with a tax for everything. Our government is for the people, not for special interests. The politicians should be treated like ordinary citizens. They should also have the same health care that is offered to non politicians. We are watching and listening ready to be informed of the devious ways government tries to sneak legislation through. God bless Howie Carr and Donald Trump! No more gas tax! Why don't you tax all the Western Union money being sent over to foreign countries by illegals working under the table if you want more money to squander?

This is a gas tax plain and simple. I drive 100 miles roundtrip to work and it would be a massive increase. I am a Republican because I believe in the constitution. This is unconstitutional. You plan on putting this through without a vote. I expect more from Republican state government. I’m not happy with an administration who keeps imposing their will on their will on voters

TCI costs are a non-solution for rural Vermonters and targets us with unnecessary and unequitable costs. My family has no options but to use our vehicles for obtaining work, school, and basic life necessities. Mass transportation is neither effective nor efficient in a rural environment. I cannot walk or bike with my young children along the rural Town roads as a main source of transportation due to having no distinguishable shoulder for safe traversing. When a vehicle approaches as we walk on these roads, we must leave the road and enter the long grass and weeds which are ripe with ticks and yellow or poison parsnip and the occasional used syringe. For as many as 6-7 months of the year the plowed snow debris leaves no options for getting off the road and out of the way of traffic. Vermont’s State roads are no better than the rural roads regarding accessible shoulder space in our area.
I would also like to point out that the State of Vermont is the largest contributor to transportation generated pollution. The State of Vermont is the largest employer in the State, all those State employees have to commute to and from work, increasing transportation generated pollution. Additionally, the State of Vermont by far, has the largest inventory of vehicles of any entity in the State, which are used by the State Employees to perform State functions such as policing, forestry, fish and game enforcement, highway maintenance, parks management, DMV enforcement, and many other entities and purposes. I am not debating the necessity of these transportation assets, my transportation requirements are as necessary to me and my family as they State’s requirements are necessary to the State. My family should not be penalized financially to meet our needs to subsidize the only growing transportation generated pollution caused by the State of Vermont.
If you want to reduce transportation generated pollution in the State of Vermont, you must first look to the largest generator of such pollution, the State’s Government and Agencies.

TCI spelled differently is TAX. Do not approve any legislation which authorizes TAX err, TCI!

Article XXIII of Part the First of the Massachusetts Constitution states: "No subsidy, charge, tax, impost, or duties, ought to be established, fixed, laid, or levied, under any pretext whatsoever, without the consent of the people or their representatives in the legislature. " Massachusetts will become just like California where people are leaving the state in droves due to excessive taxation. Climate change, formerly known as "global warming", is nothing more than redistribution of wealth. If the earth "has a fever", why is most of the country in a deep freeze now, November 13? We are not stupid. We will not vote for Governor Baker again if he refuses to allow this initiative to go forward without a legislative debate and vote.

Once again the people of Massachusetts are NOT being represented by the self serving idiots that unfortunately have been elected to do so. This is nothing more than another shakedown of the people of this state. The total disregard of the laws is absolutely amazing by the greedy unlawful and deceitful thieves we have representing us. You should be ashamed of yourselves. You are nothing more than pigs wallowing in the crap that you have made this state overflow with.