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In The News
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
“Lawmakers have many options for changes that would reduce or eliminate the long-term financing shortfalls. Taking action sooner rather than later will allow consideration of a broader range of solutions and provide more time to phase in changes so that the public has adequate time to prepare.”
— Social Security and Medicare Trustees, on the worsening of the programs finances and the fact that they will not be able to pay full benefits in eight years.
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Transportation & Infrastructure
Transportation & Infrastructure
Taxpayers for Common Sense opposes projects where the national benefit doesn’t outweigh the cost and advocates for a fix-it-first approach. We work to shift more of the financial costs and risks off federal taxpayers and onto the actual project beneficiaries themselves.