Betcha Deeval hops on the 4 cent a gallon gas tax hike rollercoaster. If he does here's hoping he and the proposal fall from the highest point . . . This joker is still provoking with his agit prop about a choochoo line to Fall River and New Bedford. I have to wonder why we haven't heard more from the corner office about a reported choochoo service to Cape Cod due to start soon. Heck, the Cape Cod locomotive ought to give Deeval ideas of hiking the gas tax to a nickle a gallon. After all, one can be assured that he doesn't pay for the fuel that carries him home to his Richmond mansion. He just applies those savings to his jumbo mortgage out thataway. . . .

Hang onto your wallets, tax increase coming. Did our dear governor stop the welfare benefits of the 19,000. missing recipients, cost to the tax payer yearly, 91 million dollars.

I got a good tax idea for you Deville Deval on how to fund whatever you plan to do.

Give us the Real Esytate Tax brake you promised us when you got elected the first time and then take it away from us. At least you will have kept one of yoiur promises. Then scream as loud as you can "Together We Can" .

If the PREVAILING WAGE REGULATIONS were eleiminated that large percentage of funds could be used elsewhere.

Doesn't everyone with half a brain understand that the majority of funds raised will be wasted on no-show jobs for relatives and supporters of politicians?  This is why we hate taxes so much.  Yes, we need to fund our roads and bridges, but we know the money will be wasted!!

No matter how much we give them, they will always need more!

Keep raising the fares on the MBTA! This will require those using it to report ineffieciencies and eliminate them. If the users don't want to pay the TRUE costs then close it down. However any new monies should be used to renovate, widen and modernize roads, bridges, tunnels and the MBTA. Upkeep and service should be born only by users!!!!

Raising the gas tax makes sense.  However, the tax should be higher within 128, and lowest outside of 495. Those folks benefiting from the Big Dig should pay for it.  It does not seem fair that the MBTA should have the burden of Big Dig debt, when the major benefit was for automobiles. The MBTA was supposed to get a shuttle train from South Station to North Station as part of the Big Dig, but that got eliminated as a cost saving measure. So why was the MBTA saddled with Big Dig debt???

Also, don't try to tax electric vehicles and other alternative fuel vehicles. They should be encouraged, not discouraged. In addition, the idea of tracking cars to tax them is an invasion of privacy. Just raise the gas tax a penny extra, and let the electric cars be encouraged as a way to avoid the tax.

I like a tax that can be avoided, like a tax on gas:  drive less, and you pay less; buy an electric or hybrid and you pay less; ride a bike and you pay nothing; ride the MBTA and you don't pay a gas tax.  All of these also reduce air polution.

If you want to have good roads, bridges and tunnels, you have to pay for them. The fairest and smartest way is to raise the gas tax. Make the price of gas a nickel higher, and it's still cheaper than Rhode Island and Connecticut.

If you raise the gas tax a little more, you could eliminate tolls on the Mass Pike. By the way, I drive a car. I rarely take the MBTA.

Plenty of money for the important things if we can cut the hacks, thugs and illegals....

A tax hike on gas is a great idea and it's about time.Let's finally get that green-line extension project going. 

Heres a few ideas for MA.

1. Get over your career as you are a public servant and start working on the ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS so that we can collect the PROPER amount of taxes the ENTIRE state should receive instead of dancing around the subject.

2. Stop putting laws and act together like allowing in state tuition to ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS!!!!!!

3. THE MBTA!!! How about charging EVERY passanger who gets on the train rather than those who go to the right doors above ground. NO TOLERANCE POLICY! No pay no ride! Raising the MBTA rates doesn't make people complain about inefficiencies and get anything done as we have seen over and over again. The MBTA promises many things it can't deliver. They need to collect ALL fares. They need to start running on time. They do need to increse the fare slightly and they need liquidate under used and unused property. They are a mess! I recall reading an article about an MBTA employee who was paid to sit in an empty building owned by the MBTA. That was all. It was empty, had been empty and was of no use. the Gentleman got an education while on the job as all he did was his homework. Enough said about the MBTA

4. Stop misusing the money we already pay in taxes for the BS that happens on the Hill and elsewhere we, the citizens, have no control over!

5. A tax for living in the city area? Really? Your going to punish me because of where I live? Teh argument that I benefit from the Big Dig or that I'm taxing the highway more than anyone in the suburbs is total crap. You sit on the side of any of the highways and start to poll the location of drivers heading to Boston and you will find a very large number coming all the way from New Hampshire. Yet you want me to pay more when in fact I woould assume the person driving from NH is actually riding well off my higher payment than I do. That makes no sense and frankly I hope if that comes to light that even more people leave Boston. As much as I love this city I have no problems leaving and letting you pay for the crap you so eagly want to place on my shoulders.

6. To claim that raising the gas tax will eliminate anything is very shortsighted. The Mass Pike tolls were already supposed to be eliminated but you belive this will go away with a higher tax on gas? Are you feeling alright. When dos income revenue ever go away once in place? Do you really thing the state will ever close the tolls? If anything you will hear about the tolls getting more expensive.

I drive to work and it takes me 25 min one way. I like using public transportation but you know sometimes its not a great choice overall. If I were to take the bus to and from work—as i did when I was vehicleless it woould take me 20-25 min (without snow and dry) to walk to the nearest bus station taking me to Waltham. Then I would ride that bus for about 1 hour and 15 mins and finally have to walk another 15 to reach my office. I then put in my 8 hours and return home in the same fashion and there we are at exactly 12-13 hours depending on whether I took lunch or not. How is this fair to tax me for driving to work, or paying more for gas than say suburb Joe who owns his own bisuness and drives the entire coast doing handyman work or the like. So before you suggest passing the buck to those other than yourself how bout you focus on the wasteful spending, lack of tax collection on all residents and lies and BS that our goverment feeds you when they want to be elected. How about getting a working man and accountant in the office rather than artist with personal feats to achieve benefiting themselves.

I would suggest revamping the toll system; discontinue collecting tolls inside the Route 128 / 93/ 95 circle around Boston.  Add tolls to Route 3, 93 & 95 southbound only.  Also add to the gas tax while taking the existing gas tax and dedicate to a comprehensive transportation plan for car, truck, rail and other mass transit systems.

First and foremost, the "financially strapped" MBTA and rail system needs to overhaul and restructure, including the terms, of its very high interest rate and debt obligation that it got itself into some years back. That's what  strangling the system long term.  Just throwing more money, raising taxes and revenues at the problem is not the answer.

Can someone give a concise answer why Texas has no state income tax and we are burdened here by a 5.3% that Deval would raise if he had the choice?  For extra credit, why would a business want to open in Massachusetts rather than Texas?