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TCS Budget Cut List for the 112th Congress: General

February 10, 2011 | Reports & Data | Budget & Tax

General Total Cuts: $421+ million Cuts Include: Shift Congressional Pensions to Defined Contribution Overseas Private Investment... Read More

TCS Recommended Budget Cut List for the 112th Congress: Transportation

February 10, 2011 | Reports & Data | Budget & Tax , Transportation & Infrastructure

Transportation Total Cuts: $18.7 billion The nation’s transportation system is broken, as the gasoline tax that each of us pays at the... Read More

TCS Budget Cut List for the 112th Congress: Infrastructure

February 10, 2011 | Reports & Data | Budget & Tax , Transportation & Infrastructure

Infrastructure Total Cuts: $6 billion For nearly two centuries, the Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) has been a way for lawmakers to... Read More

TCS Budget Cut List for the 112th Congress: Agriculture

February 10, 2011 | Reports & Data | Agriculture , Budget & Tax

Outdated and ineffective farm policies waste billions of federal funds each year, jeopardize fragile lands and waters and no longer... Read More

TCS Recommended Budget Cut List No. 2: Total Cuts $205+ billion

February 10, 2011 | Reports & Data | Budget & Tax , Energy , National Security , Transportation & Infrastructure

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... Read More

TCS Budget Cut List for the 112th Congress: Energy

February 10, 2011 | Reports & Data | Budget & Tax , Energy , National Security

Taxpayers have been subsidizing the same mature, polluting energy technologies for decades. Many projects and outdated programs still... Read More

TCS Recommended Budget Cuts for the 112th Congress

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... Read More

Election Gives Big-Spending Congressional Committees New Look

The Armed Services Committees are not the only Congressional bodies to see their memberships upended by the midterm elections. The... Read More

Common Sense Reforms for the 112th Congress

As the dawn of the 112th Congress draws near, there are several reforms Congress should enact, regardless of which party is in control.... Read More

Ethanol Editorials: Newspapers Across the County Agree - End Ethanol Subsidies!

October 12, 2010 | Reports & Data | Budget & Tax

 Newspapers Across the Country Agree: End Ethanol Subsidies! In light of TCS’ release of the Green Scissors 2010 Report on July 22 and... Read More

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September 13, 2013

Syria: Excuse 535 To Not Cut the Deficit

Volume XVIII No. 37 Possible action in Syria has become the most recent excuse du jour for Pentagon boosters... Read More