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TCS Analysis of the FY13 Presidential Budget Request

Last Updated: February 19, 2012 The FY2013 Presidential Budget Request was released this morning (2/13/2012). TCS staff will be posting...

Statement by Ryan Alexander, president of TCS on the FY13 Presidential Budget Request

The President’s fiscal year 2013 budget request is being released into swirling fiscal, economic, and electoral winds. Those winds...

Coalition Demands Deficit Plans be Public

Taxpayers for Common Sense and a coalition of groups sent a letter to the President, Speaker Boehner, and Majority Leader Reid today...

Super Failure: Time for Congress to Do Its Job

For Immediate Release November 21, 2011 Contact: Steve Ellis 202-546-8500 x126 Super Failure: Time for Congress to Do Its...

November 4, 5:43 PM—The Latest on the Deficit Cutting Super Committee

November 4, 2011-5:43 PM This way madness lies. Because the vast majority of the Super Committee’s activities have occurred behind...

Congressmen Support Common Sense Cuts to Wasteful Ag Spending

Congressmen Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) and Jeff Flake (R-AZ) sent a letter this week to the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction...

TCS Letter to the ‘Super Committee’

Yesterday, Taxpayers for Common Sense sent a letter to all 12 members of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, or the "Super...

TCS Statement and Analysis on Debt Ceiling Agreement

A statement from TCS President Ms. Ryan Alexander is below.  Analysis on the debt ceiling legislation agreed to by leadership from both...

TCS on the Debt Ceiling

Taxpayers for Common Sense statement on the debt ceiling and deficit reduction bills.          ...

Support Gang of Six Bi-Partisan Plan to Reduce Our Nation’s Deficit

    Support “Gang of Six” Bi-Partisan Plan to Reduce Our Nation’s Deficit   July 20,...

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...