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 the most recent video from the Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation explaining why focusing on the "deficit" is the wrong approach. The real problem, as argued by this video (and as we've been pointing out for a long time), is total government spending.
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