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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Outdated and ineffective farm policies waste billions of federal funds each year, jeopardize fragile lands and waters and no longer...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 Many projects and outdated programs still...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

Fair Market Value for Wind and Solar Development on Public Land

December 20, 2010 | Reports & Data | Natural Resources

Fair Market Value for Wind and Solar Development on Public Land A review and analysis of the laws and regulations governing the collection and use of revenues from commercial energy development on federal lands and is a guide for policy-makers to use in developing appropriate policies for wind and solar energy projects.... Read More

TCS and the Grocery Manufacturers Association Hold a Briefing on the Impacts and Future of the Corn

November 17, 2010 |

Also in attendance is Iowa State University economist Bruce Babcock. Click hereClick herePolicy Briefs: "Let the VEETC Expire:... Read More

Fiscal Commission Defense Cuts: Strong Start, More Can be Done

November 12, 2010 | Fact Sheet | National Security

The draft recommendations released this week by the co-chairs of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform propose... 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