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QUOTE OF THE WEEK
“With the hotter, drier, longer wildfire seasons and the near doubling of homes in the wildland-urban interface, the federal government is now spending 10 times more on suppressing wildfires than it did 30 years ago. It is vital to suppress wildfires that threaten people and property, but a pure suppression approach ignores the fire paradox: The more fires are suppressed, the more fuels accumulate; the more fuels accumulate, the larger and more destructive fires become.”
— Coalition of former USDA and DOI officials, sharing concerns on the proposal before Congress to transfer U.S. Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management to the new U.S. Wildland Fire Service.
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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.
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