Series Pt. 2: Do You Know Where Your Tax Dollars Go? Now You Can.

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🗓️ 3 October 2024

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Summary

Open the Books was founded in 2011 on a simple principle: Taxpayers deserve to know where their money is going and how it’s being spent. Americans are paying “property taxes to fund local education, so wouldn't you like to know where that money is going?” asks Matthew Tyrmand, deputy director at large of the Florida-based nonprofit Open the Books. Working at the federal, state, and local level, Open the Books files thousands of Freedom of Information Act requests every year with the aim of obtaining and publishing government spending records. For every state in the U.S., Open the Books publishes a “checkbook” detailing how much the state spends annually and on what. Tyrmand joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” as part of this week’s money and transparency series. He share the history of Open the Books and takes time to honor the organization’s founder, Adam Andrzejewski, who passed away unexpectedly in August.

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0:00.0	This is the Daily Signale podcast for Thursday, October 3rd. I'm Virginia Allen.
0:10.6	You deserve to know where your money is going and how the government and
0:15.8	businesses are using those funds. Today I am sitting down with Matthew Trimand.
0:22.0	He serves as the deputy director at large for Open the Books, an organization
0:27.0	that's all about transparency and making sure that as a taxpayer American you do indeed know where your money is going.
0:35.2	This is part two of our three-part money and transparency series here on the Daily
0:40.9	Signal.
0:41.9	If you miss yesterday, make sure you go back and listen to the conversation on ESGs, what they are, and why that ESG movement is actually really harming states and really strangling
0:54.8	practical things within states like how they use their land.
0:58.1	But today stay tuned for my conversation with the deputy director at large for
1:01.9	open the books Matthew
1:03.2	Trimand. Live from Indiana syndicated nationally from the Daily Signal
1:07.8	it's the Tony Kenned cast. Man you've got me hookline and sinker now I
1:11.2	want to tune into your program.
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1:15.0	Coverage from inside leftist riots.
1:18.0	Exposing those targeting children.
1:20.0	From the guy leaving liberal journalists speechless.
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1:35.0	It is my pleasure today to be sitting here in Alaska of all places with Matthew Trimand.
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