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• 2013 House and Senate Farm Bills Stack on More Subsidies

  As we expected, the House and Senate Agriculture Committees went to great lengths to save as little money as possible in their versions of the 2013 farm bill. The Senate led off, marking up a bill to shift more risks onto taxpayers...

  
• Small Taxpayer Victory: Outdated Airport Subsidy Reduced

  The Department of Transportation last week issued an order terminating Essential Air Service support at two airports in Montana starting July 16, 2013: Lewistown and Miles City. While the annual savings is less than $3 million, it does strike a symbolic blow against a program that is long overdue for elimination ...

  
• Letter to the House: Support Common Sense Amendments to NDAA

  As Defense Secretary Hagel has indicated, our defense spending has to be resource informed. With the nation facing a $16.8 trillion debt, we urge you to adopt these and other responsible spending amendments in an attempt to budgetarily right-size this bill...

  
• TCS Testifies on Revenue Sharing before House Natural Resources Subcommittee

  Taxpayers for Common Sense President Ryan Alexander testified before the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources on proposed state-federal...

  
• Skagit River Bridge Collapse

  The collapse of the Skagit River Bridge is a shocking and concerning event, and another reminder that maintenance and upkeep of our transportation facilities is crucial to the safety and wellbeing of the nation. Our report found that more than 11% of all existing bridges are structurally deficient...

  
• Disaster Reforms for Resiliency

  Over the past decade, extreme weather and storms have become increasingly commonplace. The sheer number of people and population centers affected by Sandy has helped shift the debate about disasters from one about helping “other people” to a conversation about national disaster policy...

  
• BETA - TCS Digital Infrastructure

  Our new Digital Infrastructure is now live in beta testing. We’re migrating our 17 years of research and investigations over to this new platform so we can better shine the light on the federal budget process. The digital world has changed how we track Federal spending, and you'll notice a number of improvements in process on this site....

  

"We need to do a lot of work on our flood insurance program. Taxpayers have been on the hook far too much. If the only way that you can get people to build in certain areas is to offer a huge federal backstop, then perhaps we shouldn't build in some of those areas."

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