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How about publishing all government transactions, excluding salaries if we must. If that works out well we can move on to publishing all transactions over a ce
by TomK32 8y ago
How about publishing all government transactions, excluding salaries if we must.
If that works out well we can move on to publishing all transactions over a certain threshold (over a certain timeframe so you can't split the transactions). And publish all transactions that go to certain countries on black or grey lists.
Limiting cash transaction is a okay thing be there's much bigger fish to catch, if only politics meant it seriously.
- thatcat 8y ago>excluding salaries Salaries are the most important transaction to monitor as they represent a recurring expense and easily become inflated in the government sector. Tax payers have a right to know what they pay for and how much it costs. What reason are you using to justify publishing private transactions?
- TomK32 8y ago> excluding salaries _if we must_ My view might be biased as I live in Austria which is well-know for government subsidies and funding. And that includes gold handshakes to send 50 yr-olds into early retirement. WHY THE FUCK!?! Anyways, my point being: Instead of outlawing big cash payments (hard to achieve in my eyes) the government has a lot of opportunities where it can show the transparency needed to re-establish trust from the plebs (sorry, citizens). I'd see publishing public transactions as a first step and private ones as a second step. I mean, all we know about that dutch-irish sandwich is fairly limited, but if those transactions had been public early on some data scientist would have said "oh, that looks funny".
- squidfood 8y agoU.S. government salaries are publicly available. Google and you can get a search tool and find the salary for any employee.