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Major Entitlement Programs Need Adjustment to Protect the Programs, Beneficiaries, and the Nation’s Fiscal Future

May 10, 2024|

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Taxpayers for Common Sense

Protecting taxpayers from government waste since 1995.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

“One critical detail that was left out is how exactly it’s going to be paid for.”

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), on the section-by-section summary of The Rural Prosperity and Food Security Act of 2024 (Farm Bill), released by Senate Agriculture Committee Chair Debbie Stabenow (D-MI).

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Washington wastes billions of taxpayer dollars annually on inefficient and outdated agriculture policies that do not address the realities of 21st-century agriculture, modern economies, or our nation’s current financial challenges.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