Read the latest reports and commentaries on the current budget crisis by Public Assets Institute ..AND the latest commentaries on state budget and taxation issues from the
Ethan Allen
Institute.
Making Government Transparent to Citizens
As citizens, we need to know . . .
Where and how government spends our tax dollars
Where and how government raises those tax dollars
How your legislators voted on important legislation
How Vermonters finance public K-12 education
How the state's budget process works
How to access state employee salaries and union contracts
The state's long run fiscal prospects
How to use the state Open Records Law
How to read Vermont Supreme Court decisions
And much more.
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"We might hope to see the finances of the
Union as clear and intelligible as a merchant`s books, so that every member of Congress
and every man of any mind in the Union should be able to comprehend them to investigate
abuses, and consequently to control them."
- President Jefferson to Treasury Secretary Albert Gallatin, April 1,
1802.
"We might hope to see the finances of the
Union as clear and intelligible as a merchant`s books, so that every member of Congress
and every man of any mind in the Union should be able to comprehend them to investigate
abuses, and consequently to control them."