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
Here's another good example of how local school districts are quickly catching up to and in many ways surpassing the states in providing transparency in government spending.
Douglas County school district in Colorado launched its website on the heels of Jeffco school district launching what we may call the gold standard for school district transparency.
Check out Douglas county's website here.

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