By: Diane Benjamin
OpenTheBooks.com has a wonderful new feature for seeing how your money is spent. It’s called BENJAMIN chatbox. It isn’t named after me, it’s named after Benjamin Franklin.
Click this link and look in the lower right corner: https://www.openthebooks.com/
You can search salaries, pensions, and vendor payments for anyone who gets tax dollars. It’s VERY easy to use, results are quickly emailed to you. I just searched for payments to the Pantagraph.
Within a minute I received this by email:
From here any government unit can be clicked to see how much they paid to the Pantagraph. I clicked the City of Bloomington and got this:
Try it, this is incredibly powerful and easy to use!
Wonderful! Finally!
Depressing for some of us when we can see who is getting raises for no reason and the rest of us are getting denied. Also the gender bias that still exists.
Knowledge is power!
True, but that power only goes so far when things have to be “approved” by a higher authority.