Foxes shouldn't guard henhouses. And state spenders shouldn't audit
their own spending.
But they will if we let them.
KTTH 770 am radio host Mike
Siegel is joining forces with EFF's WasteWatchers
project to fight waste and mismanagement with true, independent, comprehensive
performance audits. Not the current version, where lawmakers scrutinize
their own spending.
Help us place this
ad! Make sure legislators know you want true accountability. Mark
your contribution "Waste Campaign." All funds received will
be used exclusively for this purpose.
Don't forget to call your representatives! Tell them you want them
to untie the hands of the state auditor so he can conduct comprehensive
performance audits. (Find
out who your legislator is.)
Waste
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At a March 23, 2005, House Appropriations hearing on a bill to gut the voter-approved I-601 spending limit, Rep. Jim McIntire (D) asked a supporter of I-601’s two-third supermajority requirement for the legislature to raise taxes the following question:
"Can you name a time when we [legislators] have actually not just set it [supermajority requirement] aside by majority vote? I mean, this is in many respects a procedural motion that has no bearing. It’s a statutory constraint that cannot constrain any legislature that chooses as a majority to set it aside . . . have we ever used a supermajority [to raise taxes]?"