The Massachusetts Legislature isn’t waiting for Gov. Baker to pull the trigger on TCI. The House just passed a gas tax increase as part of a transportation bill whose costs won’t affect them because they get a taxpayer-funded travel allowance.
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Democrat Gov. Lied About Gas Taxes – Diverts them to Pet Priority
Anyone who tells you that this or that tax will be dedicated to some specific purpose is lying to you. They know, as well as anyone that the legislature that proposes the taking or some future cabal of elected highway robbers, will use the money for whatever pleases them.
Now Virginia (Yes Virginia) Is Giving the TCI Gas-Tax the Side – Eye
The Transportation Climate Initiative is like a pretty girl who suddenly can’t get a date. Or a pretty boy, or boy-girl, or girl boy, genderless penguin, Trans-Whale Horseshoe crab, or whatever. Sold as the darling of the ball TCI finds itself facing rejected yet again.
TCI is a “poorly conceived, fundamentally regressive, and economically damaging proposal”
TCI, the Transportation Climate Initiative, has taken some body blows of late. But it’s still upright and in need of a knockout punch. A good blow to the jaw, which this recent letter by the Heartland Institute may help deliver.
NH Democrats Are Giving Unelected Bureaucrats the Power To Raise Taxes
We should love it when the Left shows us who they are. They want to tax the crap out of you to pay for their incompetent big government fantasies, but they don’t want to suffer the potential electoral consequences. This year they’re trying to do that not once but twice.
This Regional Tax Scam Isn’t About Lower Emissions It is About Adding a New Revenue Stream
The Transportation Climate Initiative is a scam. Not a single supporter is advocating a massive downsizing of government to save the climate. That would have an immediate impact not to mention kick-starting every state economy. No, this is just another tax.
New Hampshire’s Advantage Over Massachusetts Widens but for How Long?
The Boston Herald has a piece lamenting the poor performance of Massachusetts’ leaders. New Hampshire continues to dominate the region economically and strategically while the Bay State looks for ways to do worse.
Transportation and Climate Initiative a bad deal for New Hampshire
The regional cap-and-tax scheme called the Transportation and Climate Initiative (TCI) is a bad deal for New Hampshire, the initiative organizers’ own projections show. Modeled on the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, the TCI would cap carbon emissions from transportation sources (vehicles) and force fuel distributors to buy carbon allowances. A declining cap would force distributors … Read more
Carbon Taxes Abandon GOP Principles
Earlier this week, The Hill published an article saying that College Republicans across the country were backing a group called Young Conservatives for Carbon Dividends. Here in New Hampshire, College Republicans have been speaking up against this group, because we know that Carbon Dividends are bad for the party, bad for New Hampshire, and bad … Read more
NH “Business Mag” Pimps Left-Wing Heat Wave Propaganda in NH (to sell a regional gas tax scheme)
New Hampshire Business Review (NHBR) likes to peddle self-interest stories by climate fraudsters. Dan Weeks used their pages to sell Fear that would benefit his solar business. And now we have Roger Stephenson from the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) doing something similar.
NH Gov. Chris Sununu Say No to TCI or Embracing any Sort of Regional Gas Tax
As Skip noted earlier today, we’ve got a lot of coverage on the proposed Transportation Climate Initiative. Summed up, “It’s a Trap.” An abrogation of taxing power and electoral accountability to distant climate ministers you cannot vote out of office. But we have good news. Gov. Chris Sununu says, no way.
What the unaccountable TCI bureaucrats will do to your fillup at the gas station
Steve has been all over this topic of having yet another gas tax applied to NH residents – this time, like the tax on our electricity (e.g., RGGI), it will be raised by out of state entities:
Help Wanted: The Massive Gas Tax Proposal Rollout Is Today – We Need People to Watch the Webinar
If you missed it, a cabal of Northeastern states wants to create a bit of separation between voters and taxing authority. Give the power to unelected bureaucrats whom you cannot vote out of office. It’s called the Transportation Climate Initiative (TCI), and there’s an update (program launch) Webinar Today!
Massachusetts Needs New Hampshire For Gas Tax Scam to Work
Massachusetts has a problem. Well, a new problem. They desperately want to use a proposed regional theft scheme to jack up gas prices. In California, the same scam has driven gas over 4.00/gallon. But to get there, they can’t go it alone and New Hampshire buying in isn’t a given.
NH Dems Drool as Mass Prepares to Release ‘Gas Tax’ Kraken!
Looking for the perfect gift to give your Democrat legislator this holiday season? A gas tax increase makes a great gift that keeps on giving. But how about two of them?
What Will Come of NH Senate Democrat Energy Reforms? In Germany They Made Electricity a Luxury
If you don’t stop using cheap, abundant energy leprechauns riding chariots pulled by unicorns will come and destroy the earth. Sound far-fetched? No more so than NH Democrat energy policy reforms they claim are necessary to “heal the planet.”
NH Sen. David ‘Rising’ Watters Proposes Regional Gas Tax Set by Unelected Commission
Democrats love taxes. What they love more are taxes (or tax increases) upon which they don’t have to vote. The Regional Green House Gas Initiative is just such a scam. But it’s not the only game in town.