From Citizens for Tax Justice:

[L]ast year, CTJ published a report examining the lack of scrutiny directed toward tax expenditures, and the repeated promises to address this problem made by past Administrations. [Judging Tax Expenditures: Spending Programs Buried within the Nation’s Tax Code Need to be Reviewed] Unfortunately, the President's most recent budget proposal shows no signs of progress on this issue. As CTJ points out in an op-ed in today's Sacramento Bee: "for the second year in a row, the Obama administration has chosen [in its budget] to simply copy-and-paste the Bush administration's language on this issue, complete with all the same promises about what will be done at some point over the 'next few years.'"  [Obama Budget Continues to Delay Taking a Closer Look at Tax Breaks]