Weekly Wastebasket

Budget Gimmicks and the U.S. Debt Problem

Honest Accounting Requires Truth in Budgeting

Mar 15, 2024|

Analysis

Federal Oil & Gas Leasing Reform Will Benefit Taxpayers

Mar 14, 2024|

Rolling Analysis

The President’s FY2025 Budget

Mar 11, 2024|

Analysis

Taxpayer Tools to Tackle Wildfire: Budget Priorities

Mar 7, 2024|

Resource Page

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)

Feb 27, 2024|

RECENT POSTS

Taxpayers for Common Sense

Protecting taxpayers from government waste since 1995.

WASTEBASKET

IN THE NEWS

PODCAST

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

“Investing in pre-fire mitigation work is the only way to begin to break the expensive cycle of severe wildfire risk, damages, and loss.”

— Madelene McDonald, Senior watershed scientist for Denver Water and member of the Wildland Fire Mitigation and Management Commission, in the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources’ Hearing to Examine the Findings and Recommendations of the Wildland Fire Mitigation and Management Commission.

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Washington wastes billions of taxpayer dollars annually on inefficient and outdated agriculture policies that do not address the realities of 21st-century agriculture, modern economies, or our nation’s current financial challenges.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