Green Scissors 2011

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This report, co-authored by R Street President Eli Lehrer, was issued in August 2011 as a joint project of the Heartland Institute, Friends of the Earth, Taxpayers for Common Sense and Public Citizen. It identifies more than $380 billion of wasteful government subsidies that are damaging to the environment and harmful to taxpayers.

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