Op-ed by John Baer, includes “… Our taxpayer burden has more than doubled since 2009, contributing to an overall low-down national ranking of 38th among states. This is from Truth in Accounting, a nonpartisan, nonprofit, Chicago-based analytics group founded in 2002 that studies every state. … “We don’t even analyze budgets,” says Truth in Accounting CEO Shelia Weinberg. “Budgets are calculated according to political math.” That’s a nice way of saying what I usually say: Our budgets are phony-baloney. …”
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