November 23, 2005

Taxpayer funded lobbying

By Ben Cunningham
The implications of taxpayer money being used to get more taxpayer money are huge. The most important result is that government is becoming an increasingly closed circle where citizens are relegated to observer status. This study by the Salt Lake Tribune finds that state and local governments in Utah are spending four times as much taxpayer money on Federal lobbying in 2004 than they did in 1998.