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Blackmail to Avoid Blackouts is Not Sound Policy

Imagine that you’re settling in to watch your favorite must-see-TV when your station de jour abruptly goes black. You suddenly can’t watch the big game, or the American Idol finale or (fill in your “can’t-live-without-it” show here). How could this...

CAGW Staff February 28, 2011
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Four Myths about the Export-Import Bank

The Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) is an independent government agency founded in 1934 in an effort to encourage U.S. exports. In 2010, Ex-Im Bank provided $24.4 billion in taxpayer-backed direct loans, guarantees, and export-...

CAGW Staff February 28, 2011
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Weatherization--More Money, Blowin' in the Wind

February 17, 2011 marked the two-year anniversary of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), the so-called stimulus package. Needless to say, the contrived celebratory fanfare that characterized the one-year anniversary last year has now...

Leslie Paige February 27, 2011
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Future of Earmarks Remains Vague

Predicting the future of earmarks can be a bit like peering into a crystal ball.

Sean Kennedy February 27, 2011
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Victory!

On February 16, 2011 taxpayers and the Council for Citizens Against Government Waste (CCAGW) scored a major victory when the House of Representatives voted 233-198 to kill funding for the alternate engine for the Joint Strike Fighter as part of H.R...

CAGW Staff February 27, 2011
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Planned Spending Cuts Do Not Include Defense

One of the top priorities of the Republican’s campaign to take back Congress in 2010 was to reduce the deficit by cutting spending. Republican leaders intended to return nondefense discretionary spending to 2008 levels by trimming $100 billion in...

Sean Kennedy January 26, 2011
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Does Obamacare Save or Cost Money?

The strange world of congressional budget scoring obscures whether Obamacare saves or costs money, but it also provides insight into why the federal government is in such a financial mess. Revenue and cost figures are thrown about in an attempt to...

CAGW Staff January 26, 2011
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High-Speed Rail off the Tracks

When stumping for Rep. Tim Bishop (D-N.Y.) in October 2010, Vice President Joe Biden made a telling statement regarding the government’s role in investments. He credited the government with “every single great idea that has marked the 21st century,...

CAGW Staff January 26, 2011
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New House Rules Focus Members on Making Serious Spending Cuts

On election day, taxpayers turned out in droves to support fiscally conservative candidates that they entrusted with the responsibility of cutting the federal budget, reducing the size of the national debt, and returning Congress to the hands of the...

CAGW Staff January 26, 2011
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Obama’s SOTU, Yet Another Disappointment for Taxpayers

During a time of record annual budget deficits and public debt, the country, more than ever, needs solutions to its fiscal problems. Most taxpayers were expecting the President’s State of the Union speech to signal a major policy shift, away from...

CAGW Staff January 26, 2011
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Federal Housing Administration: The Next Big Fannie?

In the upcoming session of the 112th Congress, lawmakers will be faced with the daunting challenge of what to do with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the nation’s two mortgage giants. These government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) have been under...

Leslie Paige January 26, 2011
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Net Loss

For many years there has been a vigorous debate on the pros and cons of net neutrality. On December 21, 2010, the nation took a technological step backwards when the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to institute net neutrality rules on...

CAGW Staff January 26, 2011

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