Letters & Testimony
Oppose Ag-Only Farm Bill: Spends More Than Senate Bill; Changes Make Subsidies Permanent
July 11, 2013
Essentially Wasteful: The Essential Air Service
August 03, 2011 |
Congress has split town leaving an important deal unfinished. Yes, the debt ceiling got raised, but there’s another important piece of... 
Spending Less, Spending Smarter: Recommendations for National Security Savings FY 2012 to FY 2021
July 20, 2011 |
Watchdog Groups Identify Nearly $600 Billion in National Security Spending Cuts
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The federal government could save...
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...
The Most For Our Money—Highlighting Solutions for the Nation’s Transportation Problems
May 15, 2011 |
Transportation dollars are tight. The gasoline tax that we rely on to build and maintain our transportation networks isn’t enough to meet...
The Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit: History and Current Policy
April 29, 2011 |
The Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit (VEETC) is the largest subsidy to corn ethanol, the most common biofuel in the U.S. The tax...
HR 1363 FY11 Defense/CR Only Cuts $4.4B
April 06, 2011 |
Not that it’s anything to sneeze at, but HR1363 the “Department of Defense and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2011” that the...
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 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 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...
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