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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
Spending Choices Require Transparency
Wednesday, June 2, 2010 11:40 AM
As states approach the end of their fiscal years and must now pay for their rampant spending policies, some state legislators are looking for ways to address the overspending problem. Indiana's Minority Leader Vi Simpson (D-Bloomington) is pushing transparency as a means to this end, looking to put all budget, spending and contract data online. She plans to introduce a bill next session to accomplish this after trying for months to get a comprehensive list of spending cuts state agencies have been required to make by the end of the year. We hope her efforts are successful next session, and that an Indiana Transparency Portal offers new and extensive savings for Indiana's taxpayers, as has happened in other states that have undertaken transparency reform as a means towards better spending policy.
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