Oppose Ag-Only Farm Bill: Spends More Than Senate Bill; Changes Make Subsidies Permanent
July 11, 2013
Over the weekend, Washington Post columnist Robert McCartney published a piece about the ridiculous proposal to build the Charlottesville...
These amendments would help bring the total level of spending in line with what is already agreed to in current law....
Sen. Landrieu (D-LA) has offered an amendment to the farm bill that would delay National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) reforms adopted last summer. ...
As we expected, the House and Senate Agriculture Committees went to great lengths this week to save as little money as possible in their...
Taxpayers for Common Sense and eight other organizations allied on this issue urge scrutiny of S.601, the Water Resources Development Act of 2013...
The Essential Air Service (EAS) is a federal subsidy program created in the 1970s as part of airline deregulation. Though the program was...
There was never any question that Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel would have to wield the budget axe—simple fiscal and political math...
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Classic inside baseball. Above is just one nugget Taxpayers for Common Sense came across while reading page 237 of...
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Volume XVIII No. 37
Possible action in Syria has become the most recent excuse du jour for Pentagon boosters...
July 11, 2013