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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
Speaking of Earmarks...
Thursday, July 29, 2010 12:58 PM
As the House debates the THUD Appropriations Bill and we continue to highlight the egregious earmark abuse of the appropriations process, there is some good news on the pork-barrel spending front. Yesterday, Senator Coburn's Earmark Transparency Act passed out of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee with bipartisan support. The bill, of which we have been suppportive, would put all earmarks online in a comprehensive database and would require members to attach their names and the spending amounts to their requests. This would be a great tool for taxpayers to track the Kings of Pork in Congress, so we are excited the bill is moving along!
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