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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
Read the "Stimulus"!
Friday, January 16, 2009 6:24 PM
If you're wondering what Congress is going to dish up for taxpayers as "stimulus", there has been a bill since yesterday - 258 pages of fun reading, in case you're skipping the inaugural festivities and are looking for something to do this weekend.
But all kidding aside, folks need to pour over this monstrosity and thanks to Rob Neppell at Kithbridge, it is now available in a format that allows you to perform keyword searches, and will eventually also allow users to add comments. Check it out at www.ReadTheStimulus.org
As for the transparency provisions in the bill, there's a pretty extensive section on transparency and accountability, but, as currently written, we don't think it passes muster.
Sure, they're creating a Recovery.gov, and require that a lot of information be posted on there. However, we didn't see any firm deadlines by which the information has to be up. The states are currently working to make expenditure information available in real time - that's what we want, and that 's what taxpayers deserve.
And what does "regularly" mean, when it comes to updates?
We also share Mark Tapscott's concerns, specifically when it comes to the composition of the Accountability and Transparency Board, and are worried that this whole thing will turn into a spin operation, rather than an accountability undertaking. So the site will tell us how many jobs are being created through this massive spending plan- well, are you also telling us how many jobs are being destroyed by this whole process?
Taxpayers should tell Congress: "thanks - but no thanks!"
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