What's Happening in Cut Subsidies

USEC’s Paducah Uranium Enrichment Facility Closing

The United States Enrichment Corporation (USEC) announced Friday it will shut down its Paducah gaseous diffusion plant, a Cold War-era...

Letter to Senate: Oppose Bloated Farm Bill

Taxpayers for Common Sense sent a letter to the Senate, urging support for common sense reforms to the 2013 farm bill....

Fighting Deficit Reduction

The most recent Congressional Budget Office (CBO) score of the Senate Agriculture Committee’s $955 billion farm bill continues to show...

2013 House and Senate Farm Bills Stack on More Subsidies

As we expected, the House and Senate Agriculture Committees went to great lengths this week to save as little money as possible in their...

Support Bipartisan Crop Insurance Reform Legislation

Today, TCS joined 11 other fiscal conservative groups in supporting the Bipartisan Assisting Family Farmers through Insurance Reform Measures Act....

Fiscal Conservatives Letter on Farm Policy: The “Terrible Twelve”

Today, TCS joined 10 other fiscally conservative groups highlighting a dozen wasteful farm policy programs. ...

House Subcommittee Discusses BLM Budget

The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and related Agencies held a hearing today to discuss the FY2014...

New Report Casts Further Doubt on Troubled FutureGen Project

A recent report by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) questions whether or not the nearly decade long, $1.65 billion FutureGen...

Comments to House Ways and Means Committee 2013 Tax Reform Working Groups

The House Ways and Means Committee created eleven tax reform working groups to focus on select issues within the U.S. tax code as part of...

Essential Air Service: Illustrating Coming Changes to the Program

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

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...