Enter your email:



Sign Up Here to learn about TCS's new website launch

Watch TCS on Bill Moyers Journal on PBS

TODAY'S HIGHLIGHTS

Statement on House Passage of Farm Bill Conference Report (May 14)

The Gas Tax Holiday:
Good Politics, Bad Policy
(April 30)

Letter to the Speaker:
Make the Supplemental Spending Bill Transparent (May 7)

TCS in the News

CONGRESSIONAL EARMARK RESOURCES

Ending the Earmark ATM: Despite reforms, earmarks continue to thrive

Earmark Totals by Bill

Download the complete TCS Database of FY08 Earmarks (4.0 mb file):

Download Now Button

---

The TCS Wastebasket

Fiscal Responsibility Proves Costly -- When the Democrats swept into power last year, they promised to restore fiscal responsibility in Congress.  Key to their plan was reestablishing the “pay-as-you-go" or PAYGO rules. This would mean that any new spending increase or tax cut would be offset equally by other spending cuts or tax increases. Both sides of the Hill and both parties have since been playing cynical games with this common sense budgetary principle by sidestepping the rules, which contributes to our nation’s record deficits and skyrocketing debt.

The tricks and games to avoid PAYGO are numerous.

Read the Rest of this Wastebasket...

who links to my website?

 

 


Hot Topics

Farm Bill

 

 

651 Pennsylvania Ave, SE | Washington, DC 20003 | 1-800-taxpayer | fax: 202-546-8511