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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11/25/2019 | Nathan | Nickerson III | Tax payer | Eastham | Massachusetts |
I am 100% against raising gas taxes to pay for carbon emissions. There’s very little of anything we can do to limit carbon emissions until we come up with a different technology than using fossil... read more |
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11/25/2019 | Alice | Mercer-Medeiros | Retired | NORTH DARTMOUTH | Massachusetts |
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.... read more |
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11/25/2019 | Gordon | Silva | WRKO | Medford | Massachusetts |
You people want these taxes to create more jobs and profits for MORE political hacks. YOU ARE KILLING THE GOLDEN GOOSE! |
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11/26/2019 | Christine | Kusser | Voter | Quincy | Massachusetts |
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... read more |
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11/26/2019 | Erik | H | Citizen | Gloucester | Massachusetts |
With particulates, smog, gas and oil ruining our air and being drained into our waterways and the ridiculous subsidization of fossil fuels knowing the immense harm it causes I am strongly in favor... read more |
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11/26/2019 | Anthony | Risitano | Retired | Andover | Massachusetts |
Are you folks crazy. We voted a gas tax down, you people are not listening. Your driving us into New Hampshire again. |
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11/26/2019 | Michael | Hennessy | NEFCO | Woburn | Massachusetts |
You cannot arbitrarily raise the tax on gasoline no matter what you call it, TCI is a tax that will affect every family in Ma. read more There is no possible way you can change the weather by... |
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11/27/2019 | Dana | Krueger | Krueger Food Laboratories, Inc. | Chelmsford | Massachusetts |
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... read more |
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11/27/2019 | Bruce | Marsh | DHL | Washington | District of Columbia |
please see attached comments |
DHL Comments to TCI.pdf |
11/27/2019 | Russell | Wells | tax payer | MILLBURY | Massachusetts |
The TCI is a T-A-X. A gas tax no less. Enough!! we are being taxed at the town level (prop 21/2 over ride) and the state level. And now a gas tax as well. |
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11/29/2019 | Robert | Atkinson, Jr. | Self | North Reading | Massachusetts |
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.... read more |
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11/30/2019 | James | DiMarino | Retired | Rowley | Massachusetts |
Very unfair Not to have the people of Mass vote. |
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11/30/2019 | Nick | Adams | None | Chelmsford | Massachusetts |
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... read more |
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11/30/2019 | A | Allegro | other | Boston | Massachusetts |
I am strongly opposed to the T.C.I |
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11/30/2019 | Richie | spink | None | Plymouth | Massachusetts |
TCI is just another tax on people who have to drive to work, grocery shop and just live their normal lives. Last time I checked that is probably everybody in the state. It just doesn’t end in... read more |
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11/30/2019 | J | Anzalotti | Resident | Southbridge | Massachusetts |
Enough larceny. No more funds down the rat hole. A couple of volcanic eruptions later and then what? More punishment. You should be ashamed of yourselves. |
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11/30/2019 | Scott | Mackay | Mr | Marlboro | Massachusetts |
COUNT ME OUT SHAKE DOWN YOUR ACTIVIST PALS FOR DONATIONS. THERES PLENTY OF THEM MOUTHING OFF. LET THEM PUT THEIR MONEY WHERE THEIR MOUTH IS... SEE HOW THAT WORKS OUT FOR YA |
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11/30/2019 | Joe | Lawlor | TAXPAYER | Marshfield | Massachusetts |
STOP THE MADNESS. THIS IS ABSOLUTE BS. IT IS JUST FEEL GOOD NONSENSE FOR THE CLIMATE ACTIVIST STOOGES. NO NEW TAXES UNTIL THE BLOATED STATE & LOCAL BUREAUCRACIES ARE ADDRESED. FORGET CLIMATE... read more |
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11/30/2019 | Mike | Brewster | Tax payer | Hanover | Massachusetts |
This is nothing but a across the board price increases gasoline prices effect everything from the price of tomatoes on up. Communities that are further from the city will pay more because they... read more |
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11/30/2019 | David | Renaud | Independent | Milton | Massachusetts |
We do not want another tax. We want tax relief. We want government waste and fraud eliminated. |
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