June 23, 2009
The Cost of Online Sites
Jerry Brito
Former Senior Research Fellow
Mercatus scholars host a series of interviews with with policy scholars, elected officials and other practitioners about state and local legislative and regulatory reforms.
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To speak with a scholar or learn more on this topic, visit our contact page.To date, approximately twenty states have passed legislation or adopted executive orders creating some type of online fiscal database. As other legislatures around the country have followed suite and begun to propose spending-transparency Web sites the most effective argument against these efforts is the potential high cost of such Web sites.