rutledgecapital.com » Dean Martin http://rutledgecapital.com Sun, 26 Jun 2011 21:05:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Arizona's Transparent Government Finances: now online for all to see http://rutledgecapital.com/2010/02/19/arizonas-transparent-government-finances-now-on-line-for-all-to-see/ http://rutledgecapital.com/2010/02/19/arizonas-transparent-government-finances-now-on-line-for-all-to-see/#comments Fri, 19 Feb 2010 01:07:12 +0000 John Rutledge http://rutledgecapital.com/?p=3158

You have to see this. My friend Mark Swenson, Arizona Deputy Treasurer, has shown me their new website. Arizona State Treasurer, Dean Martin, has put Arizona’s financial system online for all to see. Dean’s purpose was to provide Arizona taxpayers with a searchable, user-friendly website that discloses all revenues and expenditures for Arizona State government.

The site has daily cash balances the the entire state government (the figure above is from today’s front page) plus detailed information on all outlays and revenue sources as you can see below. It is the most transparent government site of any kind I have ever seen.

Arizona's Transparent Government Finances site

Now all we need is to get Washington to do the same. And Mr. Geithner, if you are going to say we can’t afford it, I’ll pay for it myself. My friend Mark Swenson in the Arizona Treasury tells me they did theirs for 5 weeks of programming and $13,000.

Three cheers for Dean.

JR

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