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The Transportation Climate Initiative (TCI) is a regional gas tax set by unelected bureaucrats. It claims that killing local economies and pinching pocketbooks to fund more failed government interventions will reduce emissions. I have a better idea.
The Democrats zeal for raising your gas taxes by giving taxing powers to unelected regional bureaucrats is illegal in New Hampshire. Before they can attempt to do it (and they want to), they need to make it legal. SB610 is the enabling legislation.
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, 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.
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.
We won’t take credit for much but when the Transportation Climate Initiate reared its ugly head, we took a baseball bat to it. New Hampshire Dems wanted it, and are prepared to change State law so we can get it. We took them and it to the rhetorical woodshed.
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.
Transportation costs have a direct downstream impact on everything, from the money that comes out of your wallet at the pump to the cost of goods and services. So, as the Left plays word games to support a new regional Transportation Initiative, understand that it isn’t just a gas tax.
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.
Ask a Democrat about highway infrastructure. You get an eye-roll and maybe some chatter about out of date funding mechanisms. We need to raise that gas tax. Fix our crumbling roads and bridges. But almost nobody likes gas taxes, so what do you do?
