The Boston Globe reported this morning that,
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Mass. Gov. proposes global warming parking tax
Green Hell Blog
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
In the same month that Logan International Airport hiked its parking rates by $1, Governor Deval Patrick is asking for another $2 parking “carbon fee” as part of his transportation overhaul filed this week.
The carbon fee, described on page 137 of Patrick’s 141-page bill, would that mean a 20- or 30-minute trip to pick up a relative at Logan could cost $6 in parking alone, not including tunnel tolls, which could rise to as much as $7 if legislators fail to pass Patrick’s other proposal to raise the gas tax. Three hours in a Logan garage would cost $18; all-day parking in a garage would run $26…
“It makes me never want to park here,” said Pam Nagy of Sutton, who was hauling luggage into Logan on Friday.
Patrick’s transportation secretary, James A. Aloisi Jr., said he will be glad if people stop parking at the airport and use public transportation to get there, a sentiment that has led several environmental groups to endorse the parking fee.
“It should not be inexpensive to park at convenient facilities in the middle of Logan Airport,” Aloisi said. “We need people to understand that there are better ways to get to Logan.”
He wants the parking fee – which requires approval from the Legislature – to be used for improvements to airport-related transit projects, including a proposal to build a new tunnel under South Boston to speed up the Logan-bound Silver Line bus service, and the initial phases of a long-term plan to build a transit loop around the city. Based on Logan’s most recent parking figures, the new fee would probably raise about $5.4 million per year.
But many who travel to the airport come with bulky luggage or young children, making public transit a harder sell, if not an impossibility.
Ben Kaplan pulling a cart piled high with luggage and accompanied by his wife and two young sons, said taking public transit would be tough for his family. “We’d be more likely to take a cab,” he said…
Will Gov. Patrick be taking public transit or will he continue to be driven in his $51,000 taxpayer-provided, CO2-spewing SUV?
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March 3rd, 2009 at 5:57 am
You “Mass-holes” in Taxachuecutts better wake up and throw Governor Barak Patrick out of office with Sen. Kennedy and Sen. Kerry.
But you wont.
March 3rd, 2009 at 6:20 am
Well I hope you also beat us out by having the highest gas tax too. I’m tired of being number one.
March 3rd, 2009 at 6:22 am
Damn, taxing you just to park… are we not taxed ENOUGH… ?
Is it not time to stand up and fight back America… the first American revolution was about Tyranny and Taxes, and we have MORE THAN ENOUGH here in the USA right now… to justify a true revolution.
Off our asses, and too arms!
dean Reply:
March 3rd, 2009 at 9:07 am
I shudder to think about that scenero but I think it’s coming. This “government” has stepped waaaaaay over the line and I’m afraid that nothing could bring them back to common sense.
I for one …. would sure not miss these scumbag politicians………..
March 3rd, 2009 at 6:45 am
Steeling your money right in your face why don’t you just leave your doors open when you go to work. I guess taking your money slowley doesn’t hirt as bad.
March 3rd, 2009 at 6:59 am
Take this car a shove it. Hay guys have someone take you to the airport or work and screw them when they have no money they will stop this shit. I know it would be a pain for a little while put it wouldn’t take long what do you think. So I guess they will get a carbon free card so they don’t have to pay. What a scam.
March 3rd, 2009 at 7:12 am
you guys will collapse very very soon , into a firey steaming cespool of shit , but o kidding havent you had enough yet ?? , whats it gonna take for you to get mad americ a, wil they have to Take one child from every family and murder them in public executions for you to get ENRAGED
March 3rd, 2009 at 8:07 am
Is this an example of double think because when a car is parked it isn’t giving off c02.
March 3rd, 2009 at 8:28 am
Tax and spend, tax and spend, must keep taxing and spending. Lots of taxes in MA.
March 3rd, 2009 at 9:24 am
Deval can’t bend over far enough to please the Elite! I live in RI, I HATE that guy, when I see him on TV, he’s one of Barry’s buds.
March 3rd, 2009 at 10:11 am
Wow, what a destructive cycle.
The more they tax, the more the economy fails. The more the economy fails, the more people are homeless, hungry and desperate. That leads to more need for prison space and welfare checks. That leads to more taxes and then the cycle repeats itself.
We are watching this country become an impoverished third world nation right before our eyes.
March 3rd, 2009 at 10:30 am
HMMmmm,
charging a carbon tax to park at the airport. how about charging the airport a carbon tax for spewing all that crap in the air?. screw that. I’m taking a rickshaw to the airport !
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:11 am
The GREED of the Corporate system is not short of SPECTACULAR!
The price of EVERYTHING has just gone up at the worst possible time in America.
You still sit there accepting this TYRANNY as though there were nothing you can do about them stealing the money you sweat for each week to earn and give 30% back before you see a dime in TAXES.
In your face rip offs happening daily and you accept it. SHEEP!
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:13 am
Nothing of a carbon tax on that airplane said. Just the cars to park scam scam scam I guess the airlines will get mad and quit flying oh can’t have that can we so no carbon tax for you but if they do they will pass it on to the passinger when that gets to high and we stop flying what are they going to do then what a dombass system we have it all leads to failure. So as long as they tax expect it to fell. Some day they will run out of things to tax or we will wake up a see the light at the end of the tunnel.
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:12 pm
This is PROPOSED! Stop whinning about this crap but unless you actually get up and do something about it noone will stand in the Gov. way. Start writing to Congress or get involved instead of bitching on Alex Jones’ websites.
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:36 pm
yes, soon you will be paying carbon tax on everything there is.
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:30 pm
haha wow,so even with this crappy economy they are still taxing the hell out of us? man this truelly is a war on the middle class
March 3rd, 2009 at 2:58 pm
You know in Japan a few years ago they had a toll on a new bridge that was so high no one would drive on it and they had to lower it. There comes a point when the cost of something is no longer worth it. Their parking garage may wind up empty.
March 3rd, 2009 at 4:04 pm
Good, we need more taxes on environmentally destructive behavior!
Get rid of your SUV’s you gas-guzzling right wing Amerrrrican pigs!
Global Warming is the MOTHER of ALL Global Eugenics operations.
Wake up you American Idiot Patriots!
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Dread at the control tower.
March 4th, 2009 at 5:31 am
great blog…………….keep it up
March 4th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
I think it’s time for another Tea Party.
March 4th, 2009 at 8:53 pm
I am convinced that the MAJORITY of Americans don’t give a hoot about what happens to them unless it kills their television for more than 30 minutes and then they are furious.
I blame the MSM for the mass lying to the people using their propaganda to brainwash you into towing the line for the US Corporations.
I also blame you people for being STUPID enough to buy their BULLSHIT HOOK, LINE and SINKER.
DUMB BRAINWASHED FOOLS!