Ho hum. Another day, another news article failing to grasp the point of government spending tranparency. This time, it's USA Today:
Kentucky's transparency web site doesn't shine light on much of anything.
We will have spending transparency in Kentucky when a check is written in the name of the taxpayers and we can tell what that check purchased and why. We haven't even gotten to square one.
Frankfort may have satisfied their friends in the mainstream media, but they haven't provided us with transparency yet.
Monday, February 23, 2009
Media coverage of transparency really stinks
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Its simply amazing that our commonwealth cannot manage the funds of the people of this state. It is absurd to sit and continue to ask for tax increases, and more socialistic robbery meanwhile we have waste, bureaucracy and a lack of transparency. I wonder how many hundreds of millions over the years have been wasted by state and local governments. We are a high tax state in this commonwealth with a state income tax rate of 5.8 percent on all income up to 75,000 and 6 percent above that threshold. The county I am in, Jefferson, taxes an additional tax of 2.2 percent on all income in name of a occupational tax. This on top of federal tax rates, property taxes, excise taxes, 6 percent sales tax, etc. Not to mention business permits, tax collection on retail, etc. Simply amazing and these people can't even manage the budget they already have. Not to mention anything else.
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