an effort to create searchable online databases for government expenditures
a tool to highlight the hypocrisy of tax hikers
Constitutional or statutory requirement to rein in growth of revenues end expenditures
a commitment made by elected officials and candidates for elected office never to raise taxes
Raising the bar for tax increases
Requiring a cool-off period for all bills with a fiscal impact
pork-barrel spending - the broken windows of the budget
Kansas State Representative Kasha Kelley, lead sponsor of comprehensive spending transparency legislation that passed the legislature in 2007, outlines her spending transparency efforts in Kansas at last year's National Conference of State Legislatures convention in Boston.
This may be a year old, but it is just as relevant today as it was then. Please note that the website the creation of which was mandated by Rep. Kelley's bill has since been launched. Check it out here.

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