| TPPF launches state budget source website |
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| by Will Lutz | Wed, Jul 9, 2008, 11:13 AM |
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The Texas Public Policy Foundation has announced the creation of a new website to provide information on the budget. The website includes information on state and local budgets and promotes the idea of more transparency for government expenditures. “Texas has been a leader in the movement to increase transparency of state and local government spending,” said Foundation president Brooke Rollins. “Citizens become better informed voters when they can see how their tax dollars are being spent. Spending transparency also puts governments on notice that they can no longer get away with spending tax dollars in wasteful, duplicative, or self-serving ways.” The site includes a clock, which counts up as the state spends more money.
“Instead of having to walk into dozens of different government buildings or painstakingly search all over the Internet to find how tax dollars are being spent, you can simply go to TexasBudgetSource.com,” said Talmadge Heflin, Director of the Foundation’s Center for Fiscal Policy and a former chairman of the Texas House Appropriations Committee. We post a link below.
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