Policy Briefs
Analysis of Selected Provisions in Hurricane Sandy Emergency Spending Proposals
December 17, 2012
Reports & Data
Subsidizing Oil Shale: Tracing Federal Support for Oil Shale Development in the United States
November 29, 2012
TCS Budget Cut List for the 112th Congress: Tax Expenditures
February 10, 2011 |
Tax Expenditures
Total Cuts: $624 billion
Cuts Include:
Mortgage Interest Deduction
Cut: $390 billion
LIFO
Cut: $52.9... 
TCS Recommended Budget Cut List for the 112th Congress: Transportation
February 10, 2011 |
Transportation
Total Cuts: $18.7 billion
The nation’s transportation system is broken, as the gasoline tax that each of us pays at the...
TCS Budget Cut List for the 112th Congress: Energy
February 10, 2011 |
Energy
Total Cuts: $42 billion
Taxpayers have been subsidizing the same mature, polluting energy technologies for decades. Many...
TCS Budget Cut List for the 112th Congress: National Security
February 10, 2011 |
NATIONAL SECURITY
Total Cuts: $95 billion
Total Achieved Savings: $7 billion
For too long, the defense budget was considered...
TCS Budget Cut List for the 112th Congress: Agriculture
February 10, 2011 |
AGRICULTURE
Total Cut: $110 billion
Outdated and ineffective farm policies waste billions of federal funds each year, jeopardize...
TCS Budget Cut List for the 112th Congress: Infrastructure
February 10, 2011 |
Infrastructure
Total Cuts: $6 billion
For nearly two centuries, the Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) has been a way for lawmakers to...
TCS Budget Cut List for the 112th Congress: General
February 10, 2011 |
General
Total Cuts: $421+ million
Cuts Include:
Shift Congressional Pensions to Defined Contribution
Overseas Private Investment...
TCS Recommended Budget Cut List No. 2: Total Cuts $205+ billion
February 10, 2011 |
The time has come for Congress to begin a serious discussion about how it is going to correct the current budgetary path into deeper and...
TCS reaction to Sen. Manchin (D-WV) Statement on Coal Subsidies
February 03, 2011 |
We all know that lawmakers are allowed the occasional stretching of the truth, but at a Senate Energy and Natural Resources...
TCS Review of CBO Brief: Spending and Funding for Highways
January 21, 2011 |
As the 112th Congress begins to tackle runaway deficits, government spending cuts, and congressional earmark bans, they will undoubtedly...
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