Budget manipulation and its effects on taxpayers
Transparency — By Online Editor on July 22, 2010 at 10:40 AMThe Mercatus Center at George Mason University takes a serious look at state budgets and the inflation of them caused by gimmickry, fiscal evasion, and fiscal illusion; all common practices which pass extra costs off to taxpayers.
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