Transparency and Accountability in the Economic Recovery
TCS President Ryan Alexander discusses the difference between transparency and accountability when it comes to the economic recovery.
Categories: Federal Budget, Headlines By TCS, Public Lands and Natural Resources, Transparency, Wastebasket
Tags: economic stimulus, Green Scissors, transparency |
Climate Change, Cap and Trade, and Subsidies
Ryan Alexander discusses what taxpayers need in climate change legislation.
Categories: Energy, Federal Budget, Wastebasket
Tags: coal, coal subsidies, Congress, energy subsidies, House of Representatives, Internal Revenue Service, nuclear energy, nuclear subsidies, Senate, subsidies, tax policy |
Steve Ellis on the President's FY2010 Budget
TCS Vice President Steve Ellis details proposed cuts in the president's FY2010 budget submission.
Categories: Federal Budget, National Security, Wastebasket
Tags: Army Corps of Engineers, Defense Appropriations, Department of Defense, Government Accountability Office (GAO), president's budget, Ted Stevens |
Taxpayers Lose Millions from Mining on Public Lands
For more than ten years, Taxpayers for Common Sense has been working to save taxpayers millions by reforming the archaic 1872 Mining Law. Under this law, international mining companies are allowed to mine hardrock minerals (like gold and uranium) on public lands for free, while taxpayers are stuck with the bills for clean-up.
TCS President Ryan Alexander discusses this little-known, but egregious example of corporate welfare, and what we are doing to stop it.
Categories: National Security, Public Lands and Natural Resources, Wastebasket
Tags: 1872 Mining Law, Department of Defense, mining, mining reform, Ryan Alexander |
The Department of Justice Drops All Charges Against Ted Stevens--TCS Responds
The Department of Justice announced this week it was dropping all charges against former Sen. Ted Stevens, convicted last fall of violating federal law by failing to disclose gifts on his Senate financial disclosure forms.
For our day-by-day accounting of the trial, click here.
Categories: Federal Budget, Headlines By TCS, Transparency
Tags: Alaska, corruption, Ted Stevens |
Laura Peterson on the F-22 and National Defense
Senior Policy Analyst Laura Peterson discusses national security and the role of the F-22. Read more on this topic in the piece: F-22: No More Second Helpings
Categories: Headlines By TCS, National Security
Tags: F/A-22, Laura Peterson, weapons |
