Letters & Testimony
Oppose Ag-Only Farm Bill: Spends More Than Senate Bill; Changes Make Subsidies Permanent
July 11, 2013
Green Scissors 2011
August 23, 2011 |
Taxpayers for Common Sense joined environmental, consumer watchdog, and free-market groups today to release Green Scissors 2011, which... 
No Deal on Ethanol for Taxpayers
July 19, 2011 |
A small group Senators are attempting to snatch fiscal defeat from the jaws of taxpayer victory on ethanol subsidies. Last month the...
Earmark Terms Glossary
July 06, 2011 |
Categories of Earmarks
Disclosed Lawmaker: Earmarks Earmarks that appear in the explanatory statement of an appropriations bill for...
Big Oil, Big Corn: An in-depth look at the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit
June 23, 2011 |
Big Oil, Big Corn: An in-depth look at the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit
Corn has been subsidized since the 1930s, but it was...
Subsidy Gusher: Taxpayers Stuck With Massive Subsidies While Oil and Gas Profits Soar
May 17, 2011 |
There are a couple of basic truths about oil and gas companies today--they are highly profitable, heavily subsidized, and well-connected...
Ongoing TCS Analysis of the FY2012 Budget Proposal
March 10, 2011 |
The FY2012 Presidential Budget Request was released this morning. TCS staff will be posting relevant documents and analysis as we digest...
Common Sense Cuts—$900 billion in savings over 10 years
February 12, 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 Recommended Budget Cuts for the 112th Congress
January 11, 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...
FY2011 Omnibus Appropriations Earmark Database
December 29, 2010 |
(Originally Posted 12/17/2010)
Taxpayers for Common Sense has completed an initial database of the 6,706 earmarks worth $8.3 billion...
TCS Releases Database of FY11 Earmark Requests
December 07, 2010 |
Taxpayers for Common Sense, WashingtonWatch.com, and Taxpayers Against Earmarks teamed together to develop a database of all fiscal year 2011 earmark requests....
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