For Immediate Release September 5, 2012

Contact:  Leslie K. Paige 202-467-5334 Luke Gelber 202-467-5318

CAGW Releases September WasteWatcher

A Monthly Dispatch From Citizens Against Government Waste

Owe Back Taxes? Have Some More Cash
By Luke Gelber

It has long been clear that, when monitoring the activities of the federal government, one must often suspend natural expectations for sanity and integrity. For example, anyone who fails to pay taxes should be last in line to collect benefits paid for by taxpayers. But if the results of four reports are any indication, tax deadbeats are raking in federal cash …

How Congress Should Avert the Fiscal Cliff
By Madeline Eldridge

As the economy teeters precariously on the edge of the so-called “fiscal cliff,” it is difficult not to imagine what advice Milton Friedman, the brilliant economist and staunch advocate of limited government and fiscal restraint, would have offered our nation’s lawmakers had he lived to celebrate his hundredth birthday …

FCC understates success of broadband
By Deborah Collier

On August 21, 2012, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued its eighth annual report on advanced communications capability in America, pursuant to section 706 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Using the information in this report, the FCC concluded that despite continued investments by the private sector, as well as grants and funding from the universal service fund (USF), there are still 19 million Americans living in 7 million households without fixed broadband capabilities. While that means 95 percent of Americans now have access to broadband, the FCC has determined that “implementation work is far from complete” …

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