Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:39:42 GMT From: "National Taxpayers Union"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Theresa Steed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject:
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Dear Theresa,
State governments dole out billions of tax dollars every year through grants,
contracts, and other forms of spending. Where's the money going? Our newly
formed "Show Me the Spending" coalition believes you have a right to know.
The National Taxpayers Union and our coalition partners are working to pass
legislation in all 50 states requiring a so-called "Google government" website
that would allow you to see how the state government is spending your
hard-earned money. Please help us now by visiting the coalition's homepage,
www.showmethespending.org, and telling your legislators to "Show Me the
Spending!"
As you may know, last year President Bush signed the Federal Funding
Accountability and Transparency Act into law. Originally sponsored by Senators
Tom Coburn (R-OK) and Barack Obama (D-IL), the bipartisan legislation is
creating a searchable online database that the general public can use to track
hundreds of billions of dollars in federal grant and contract expenditures.
Taxpayers deserve this kind of openness from state government too. The cost
would be small, and the result would help to hold all elected officials
accountable for state spending. While more than a dozen other states have
limited versions of disclosure websites for grants and/or contracts, only one
(Kansas) has created the kind of cohesive, comprehensive database envisioned in
the federal legislation.
Providing an easy-to-use tool like the searchable website would enable you
and your fellow residents to make sense of how your tax dollars are being
parceled out, and make your own determinations of government's spending
priorities.
The coalition's new website, www.showmethespending.org, features a
constantly-updated legislative status center for all 50 states, model
legislation for officials, research on the benefits of state spending
disclosure, and a grassroots action center that gives citizens like you the
ability to petition your legislators.
Conservatives, liberals, and everyone in between ought to agree that
transparency of and public access to government information is vital to the
health of our political system. Wherever you stand on the issues, please click
over to www.showmethespending.org and speak out today!
Sincerely,
John Berthoud
National Taxpayers Union
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