Transportation & Infrastructure
In recent years, Congress has used several general Treasury fund transfers to cover the revenue shortfall, thereby undermining the user-pays principle. Lawmakers have failed to rid the transportation system of unnecessary programs, such as the Essential Air Service, a relic of airline deregulation that subsidizes air travel to and from rural airports. Congress uses budgetary gimmicks to avoid difficult choices. In the most recent transportation bill 10 years of revenues from tax code changes were used to cover just two years of transportation spending. This irresponsible approach to transportation policy is pushing the Highway Trust Fund as well as the Inland Waterways Trust Fund toward insolvency.
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This bill is irresponsible and we urge you to oppose it and amendments that will make the bill worse.... 
The Senate WRDA bill is too costly to stand.... 
Taxpayers for Common Sense and eight other organizations allied on this issue urge scrutiny of S.601, the Water Resources Development Act of 2013... 
The Essential Air Service (EAS) is a federal subsidy program created in the 1970s as part of airline deregulation. Though the program was... 
Dear Taxpayer,
Classic inside baseball. Above is just one nugget Taxpayers for Common Sense came across while reading page 237 of the... 
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.... 
Update (12:30pm) - The House passed this bill today 361-41, and it now goes to the President for his signature. Though the bill does shift... 
Update (9:03 pm): The Senate has gone with option 1 (see below), allowing for the transfer of $250 million from the Airport Improvement... 
The Essential Air Service (EAS) is a federal subsidy program created in the 1970s as part of airline deregulation. Though the program was... 
The Senate's Environment and Public Works committee is taking up a water project bill that could cost taxpayers billions.... 
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