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Taxpayers for Common Sense. Taxpayers for Common Sense ( TCS) is a nonpartisan federal budget watchdog organization based in Washington, D.C., in the United States. TCS is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization; its 501 (c) (4) affiliate is Taxpayers for Common Sense Action (TCS Action). The current president of TCS is Stephen Ellis.
The Truman Committee, formally known as the Senate Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program, was a United States Congressional investigative body, headed by Senator Harry S. Truman. [ 1] The bipartisan special committee was formed in March 1941 to find and correct problems in US war production with waste, inefficiency, and ...
R Street Institute. The R Street Institute is an American center-right think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C. [2] The institute's stated mission is to "engage in policy research and outreach to promote free markets and limited, effective government ." [3] R Street was established in 2012 when its founders split from the Heartland ...
This decision to delay represents “a victory for common-sense tax policy by ensuring that consumers are not facing a tsunami of 1099-Ks in January,” according to Arshi Siddiqui, a partner at ...
The Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan was an independent, bipartisan commission of the United States government established in 2008 to study government contracting related to the Afghanistan War and the Iraq War. [1] Headline findings included over $30bn waste and fraud identified along with further potential losses ...
The Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, [1] colloquially referred to as the Supercommittee, was a joint select committee of the United States Congress, created by the Budget Control Act of 2011 on August 2, 2011. This act was intended to prevent the sovereign default that could have resulted from the 2011 United States debt-ceiling crisis.
The Golden Fleece Award (1975–1988) was a tongue-in-cheek award given to public officials in the United States for squandering public money. Its name is sardonically taken from the actual Order of the Golden Fleece, a prestigious chivalric award created in the late 15th century. It is a play on the transitive verb fleece, or charging ...
The watchdog group Taxpayers for Common Sense identified over 8,500 earmarks totaling $7.7 billion (1.9% of the bill's total), including $22 million for the John F. Kennedy Library, dozens of grants to assist states and counties prevent the spread of methamphetamine use, and $200,000 for the removal of tattoos from gang members.