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Blazing a Trail to Fiscal Responsibility

Increasing Communities Resilience to Wildfires Can Save Lives and Taxpayer Dollars

Apr 12, 2024|

Statement

Taxpayers for Common Sense Statement on Department of the Interior’s Final Rule on Oil and Gas Leasing

Final Rule Codifies Recent Reforms & Updates Bonding Requirements

Apr 12, 2024|

Our Take

IRS Austerity Hurts Taxpayers, Helps Tax Avoiders

How a decade of cutting IRS funds left the agency ill-equipped to do its job.

Apr 11, 2024|

Podcast

BWAF Podcast — Ep. 66: Who Pays When Disaster Strikes

Apr 10, 2024|

Report

Fiscal Year 2024 Congressional Program Increases to the Pentagon Budget

Apr 9, 2024|

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“The bottom line of it is that the sentinel program is way beyond budget. It now is Nunn-McCurdy, meaning it has a full stop under the law and a full review…the military will come back with an analysis. All of us owe to the American people a very careful analysis by us of the military’s analysis. We have to force them to answer the five questions that the law requires in full.“

— Rep. John Garamendi (D-CA), during a House Appropriations Committee hearing in which he addressed the Sentinel ICBM’s significant cost overrun. To learn more about the Sentinel, read our recent op-ed in Stars and Stripes.

Agriculture

Agriculture

Washington wastes billions of taxpayer dollars annually on inefficient and outdated agriculture policies that do not address the realities of 21st-century agriculture, modern economies, or our nation’s current financial challenges.

Budget & Tax

Budget & Tax

Budget, tax, and spending decisions are about more than numbers, they are reflections of our priorities.

Climate

Climate

Taxpayers for Common Sense is dedicated to exposing both the direct and hidden costs that we as taxpayers are forced to pay every year for damages caused by climate change.

Energy & Natural Resources

Energy & Natural Resources

We work to bring transparency to federal land and asset management, and to push Congress and Administrations to establish rents, royalties, and fees for private development of public land so taxpayers receive a fair return.

Infrastructure

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.

National Security

National Security

We monitor presidential, agency, and congressional spending requests, looking for duplications, over budget and unaffordable weapons systems, and projects driven by parochial or industry concerns rather than by sound security strategy.