TCI Regional Policy Design Stakeholder Submissions

Creating an additional gas tax is going to hurt our State. Everyone will end up paying more in gas tax, property taxes, and more. The town's will pass on extra costs thru property taxes. Grocery stores will pass on costs they 6 increased food prices. For us living in rural Maine. Public transportation is not an option. We also cannot rely on electronic cars. They don't work week in cold. Please do not agree to this extra costs to mainers.

This is a tremendous mistake that will not benefit Mainer's in any way. I personally drive over 400 miles per week if not more to work and school. The price of fuel is already unbearable, adding an additional tax will inhibit me from pursuing my career path, and providing for my family. I need a truck for what I do; building materials, groceries, tools, and more. I need to plow my driveway in the winter, have you ever seen a plow on a Prius? If you raise the taxes it will cost more to transport your beloved illegal aliens to your beloved sanctuary cities, then the local law enforcement, fire and EMS services will not have enough money budgeted to cover the increased number if calls. Great idea if you want to see people run for the hills like they are in New York under the Mook Governor Coumo... Massachusetts is not far behind, and here we go, Maine...we were on our way to better days and then they elected you...Janet Mills....do not move forward with this plan. It is a terrible idea, will only have a negative impact on Maine and Mainer's and will destroy what is left of a beautiful state to satisfy the needs of the liberal masses.

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 welfare fraud and collecting the millions of uncollected taxes that are due? Enough is enough! This tax will trickle to all areas of our economy.

Maine cannot afford to move forward with TCI. As a resident of Aroostook County, where everything already costs more than in central and southern Maine, I simply cannot afford this initiative. I already work a full time AND and additional part time job and still struggle to buy heating oil and make ends meet. Passing such an initiative will tax me, and a lot of other people, right out of the state. I do not want to live in California. If I did, I would move. Janet Mills will not be happy until she destroys the great State of Maine.

The study showed the benefits for the state economies, jobs, and asthma rates, etc. of the cap and invest program proposed. However I was shocked at how the proposal from this whole effort would only result in 1-6% emissions reductions from the baseline case. This is simply not at the scale of the problem we face. Incrementalist approaches are no longer an option--we have to get transportation emissions down in the decade of 2032 by as close to 100% as possible. Our study showed how that could be done in one TCI state, Rhode Island. See: https://www.sei.org/publications/deeper-decarbonization-in-the-ocean-state/. My concern is that this initiative will create the perception that something is being done about climate change, when this is utterly, utterly, inadequate. Thank you.

This bill is nothing more than an attempt to bankrupt senior citizens and any others who make a living driving , as such it needs to be voted down post haste!!!!

So why would a mostly rural state like Maine agree to do anything in conjunction with a highly populated state like Mass. or NY. In a nut shell this sounds like carbon taxing. The taking of wealth from the population and giving it to the government. In other words a tax. We all know from our civics classes that the power to tax is the power to destroy. The TCI is just another way to take the freedoms, we as taxpayers enjoy, away from us. This is yet another terrible idea submitted by liberals.

Maine is so unlike the rest of these regional States in size, population, economics, alternative transportation options, commerce and carbon footprint! Here’s another Bad Deal for Mainers!!