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Show posts MenuQuote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on December 19, 2022, 09:30:44 AMThe budget is easily accessible to everyone. It is a single thread in the Hopper.Better Know a Platform:
Talossa's Checkbook
We will direct the Ministry of Finance to create an online 'Talossa's Checkbook' site where citizens can see where our Treasury is budgeting funds and where actual spending is occurring. This information is available, but it should be obvious and accessible.
How is your country spending your money? Where are those louise going? How much more did we spend this term, compared to last? How much money do we have, and how has the balance changed over time?
Two or three people may know the answers to these questions. A larger handful could figure out the answers (if they needed to – no one will bother). But for most of the country, they don't know and can't really find out. This information is published in different places on Wittenberg, at different times, and by different people. Unless you know the procedures, you probably don't even know that the budget information even exists! Zooks! We at the TNC think that the people deserve to know.
Reports from the Burgermeister of Inland Revenue, budgets from the Ziu, and actual expenditures should be available to the people of Talossa through an easy-to-read interface online, consistently published each term. Just like with basic statistics about our country or an inventory of skills, this doesn't need to be any fancier than a simple spreadsheet. Once we make the baseline information available, our citizens will have the access and resources to take care of the rest. And maybe a future project could make this information more visual. For now, we need to just let the people know how we're spending their money!
You'll notice that this has a similar vibe to our proposal to begin publishing some of the most basic statistics about our country for our citizens – things like immigration data, Wittenberg use, etc. This is partially because we believe that Talossans deserve to be more informed about what's happening in their country. But it's important to remember that making this information available will help encourage our citizens to use it. Journalism, research, and politics will all benefit from data availability. C'e utzil es divertat. And since it's pretty easy to just slap this stuff on a spreadsheet, it's crazy that we're not already doing it.
Vote for the TNC, and find out where your money is going!