Weekly Wastebasket
Weekly Wastebasket
Weekly Wastebasket
Weekly Wastebasket
In The News
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
“Everybody likes a tax cut, but when you’re $37 trillion in debt on the path to over $60 trillion in debt, right when the Social Security trust fund is running out, somebody’s got to be the dad that says, ‘I know everybody wants to go to Disney World, but we just can’t afford it.”
— Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), shortly after the bill passed the lower chamber last Thursday.
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Transportation & Infrastructure
Transportation & 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.