Taxpayers subsidize the nuclear power industry by guaranteeing repayment of billions of dollars in loans necessary to construct nuclear power plants.
Liabilities for private industries can be an especially dangerous form of subsidy, because the total cost to taxpayers is not necessarily reflected in the initial price tag. Huge, profitable companies like oil and gas companies do not need taxpayer subsidies, nor should Congress selectively prop up failing private companies by assuming their liabilities.
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Today, TCS joined 11 other fiscal conservative groups in supporting the Bipartisan Assisting Family Farmers through Insurance Reform Measures Act.... 
Today, TCS joined 10 other fiscally conservative groups highlighting a dozen wasteful farm policy programs. ... 
This bill is irresponsible and we urge you to oppose it and amendments that will make the bill worse.... 
Today, a bipartisan set of Representatives introduced a bill to take long overdue steps toward reforming the broken Renewable Fuel Standard... 
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently released their annual analysis of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Loan Guarantee... 
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The Biorefinery Assistance Program, administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Rural Development office, was intended to... 
Created as part of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Title XVII Loan Guarantee Program has $34 billion in... 
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