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Green Scissors 2010

Taxpayers for Common Sense joined a number of environmental and consumer groups and a bipartisan slate of Representatives today in...

FY11 Budget Cuts Agriculture Waste

The President’s proposed FY2011 Department of Agriculture (USDA) budget is $25.8 billion, slightly reduced from the FY2010 level of $26.9...

GAO: More than $49 Million in Potentially Ineligible Farm Payments

Just months after a new multi-billion dollar five year farm bill was passed into law, a federal watchdog reports that individuals who are...

FY2009 Appropriations Bills: TCS Analyses and Earmark Databases

The following are links to TCS's analysis and database for each of the FY09 appropriations bills. (Note: With the exception of House...

Silos Full of Subsidies

Overview For over 70 years American taxpayers have been doling out billions of dollars every year to underwrite the agriculture sectors’...

TCS Agriculture Program

Taxpayers for Common Sense works with a broad range of groups to enact significant farm policy reform. With the farm bill up for...

TCS Statement on House Passage of Farm Bill Conference Report

Written Statement by Ms. Ryan Alexander, President of Taxpayers for Common Sense on the House passage of the farm bill conference report....

Oppose Farm Bill Conference Report

Dear Congressman, We urge you to vote no on the farm bill conference report, the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 that is...

TCS Letter to Congress: Oppose Farm Bill Conference Report

Dear Congressman, We urge you to vote no on the farm bill conference report, the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 that is...

Taxpayerand NTU Letter to the President: Veto the Farm Bill

  The Honorable George W. Bush President The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., NW Washington, DC 20500 Dear Mr. President, Congress...

Engineering Boondoggles

While Washington is wringing its hands about the automatic across-the-board budget cuts known as...