Arizonas financial system now on line for all to see

You have to see this. Arizona State Treasurer, Dean Martin, has put Arizona’s financial system on line for all to see. Dean's purpose was to provide Arizona taxpayers with to provide Arizona taxpayers with a searchable, user-friendly website that discloses all revenues and expenditures for Arizona State government.

The site has daily cash balances the the entire state government (the figure above is from today's front page) plus detailed information on all outlays and revenue sources as you can see below. It is the most transparent government site of any kind I have ever seen.

Now all we need is to get Washington to do the same. And Mr. Geithner, if you are going to say we can't afford it, I'll pay for it myself. My friend in the Arizona Treasury tells me they did theirs for 5 weeks of programming and $13,000.

Three cheers for Dean.

JR