Budget & Tax
approved significant spending cuts over the next decade. There are many different options Congress will consider as it tackles the $16 trillion national debt that is inhibiting our nation’s overall economic growth.
Tax policy has emerged as one of the few areas that both political parties agree needs considerable reform. Over the years, the nation’s tax code has become littered with special interest tax breaks known as “tax expenditures.” Lawmakers must address the profusion of specialized tax breaks that cost taxpayers more than $1 trillion in revenue every fiscal year. A simpler, flatter, fairer tax code will better serve taxpayers.
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The House Ways and Means Committee created eleven tax reform working groups to focus on select issues within the U.S. tax code as part of... 
Taxpayers for Common Sense staff will be combing through the budget over the next several hours and days and bringing to light various... 
Today, TCS sent a letter to Rep. McClintock supporting his bill to prioritize payments on U.S. debt.... 
Taxpayers for Common Sense and eight other fiscal conservative organizations urge support for a crop insurance transparency amendment. ... 
The current CR and spending bills theoretically mimic the FY13 appropriations bills, but we’ve started looking to see where lawmakers added and subtracted dollars.... 
February 6, 2013
Dear Member of Congress,
On behalf of the undersigned organizations and... 
The Senate's Environment and Public Works committee is taking up a water project bill that could cost taxpayers billions.... 
Congress and the President do not need to plunge taxpayers off a “Fiscal Cliff”. Common sense solutions can make government work and put the country on sound footing to deal with our deficits and debt.... 
The so-called Farm Bill currently being negotiated in Congress is shaping up to be another taxpayer-funded handout to wealthy landowners,... 
Federally subsidized crop insurance has become the largest taxpayer support for agriculture. But not all parts of the agriculture industry... 
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