The majority of tax expenditures go to people who earn more than the median income.

The federal government began creating tax expenditures in the twentieth century.

Since the 1910s at least two tax expenditures have been created each decade.

A reason tax expenditures have been able to be enacted without much debate is simply because many people did not know about them.

But unlike most spending programs, tax expenditures are rarely reviewed.

I am referring to what are commonly called "tax expenditures."

Between 1972 and 2008, the number of tax expenditures more than quadrupled from 60 to 247.

Fighting crime and drugs is one tax expenditure that benefits the poor most of all.

In Alabama, tax expenditures were $165, while direct spending was $371.

These are the areas that, next to education, account for the largest portion of the local tax expenditure.