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Supporting Passenger Mobility and Choice by Breaking Modal Stovepipes: Comparing Amtrak and Motorcoach Service

July 30, 2013 | Reports & Data | Transportation & Infrastructure

Supporting Passenger Mobility and Choice by Breaking Modal Stovepipes: Comparing Amtrak and Motorcoach Service This analysis compares customer costs (fare, travel time) and societal costs (government subsidies, air emissions) associated with twenty specific trips that can currently be taken between select U.S. city pairs on both an Amtrak train and on a scheduled intercity motorcoach bus.... Read More

Essential Air Service Dataset

April 04, 2013 | Reports & Data | Transportation & Infrastructure

Essential Air Service Dataset The Essential Air Service (EAS) is a federal subsidy program created in the 1970s as part of airline deregulation. Though the program was... Read More

Sandy Supplemental Data

February 12, 2013 | Reports & Data | Earmarks & Appropriations , Transportation & Infrastructure

Sandy Supplemental Data As Washington debates the merits of a supplemental spending bill in response to superstorm Sandy, this database lists of all the spending... Read More

Analysis of Selected Provisions in Hurricane Sandy Emergency Spending Proposals

December 17, 2012 > Updated: January 10, 2013 | Reports & Data | Earmarks & Appropriations , Transportation & Infrastructure

Analysis of Selected Provisions in Hurricane Sandy Emergency Spending Proposals Update January 10, 2013: We’ve combed through the House Appropriations Chairman Rogers Sandy Supplemental bill (HR 152 and his... Read More

Subsidizing Oil Shale: Tracing Federal Support for Oil Shale Development in the United States

November 29, 2012 | Reports & Data | Energy , Natural Resources

Subsidizing Oil Shale: Tracing Federal Support for Oil Shale Development in the United States With fiscal cliff looming, TCS calls for end to government handouts for failed oil shale experiments.... Read More

Earmark Data

November 07, 2012 | Reports & Data | Earmarks & Appropriations

Earmark Data Even under an existing moratorium, earmarks have received a lot of attention in the media, in Congress, and around the water cooler in... Read More

Coal Subsidy Database

October 15, 2012 | Reports & Data | Energy

Coal Subsidy Database Over the years the coal industry has received billions in federal subsidies, in a variety of forms including direct grants, loan... Read More

Sliding Past Sequestration: $2 Trillion in Common Sense Cuts to Avoid the Fiscal Cliff

Sliding Past Sequestration: $2 Trillion in Common Sense Cuts to Avoid the Fiscal Cliff In the summer of 2011, Congress sent the President a bill that acknowledged failure. Instead of swallowing hard and coming up with... Read More

Green Scissors Report 2012

August 07, 2012 | Reports & Data | Budget & Tax , Energy , Natural Resources , Transportation & Infrastructure

Green Scissors Report 2012 Green Scissors 2012 is produced by Friends of the Earth, Taxpayers for Common Sense, and R Street to highlight and end wasteful and environmentally harmful federal spending. This diverse coalition of environmental, taxpayer and free-market groups has come together to show how the government can save billions of tax dollars and improve our environment. ... Read More

Spending Even Less, Spending Even Smarter

May 08, 2012 | Reports & Data | Earmarks & Appropriations , National Security

Spending Even Less, Spending Even Smarter A report from the Project on Government Oversight and Taxpayers for Common Sense published May 8, 2012 including recommendations for National Security Savings FY 2013 to FY 2022 Deficit Reduction $688 Billion.... 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