In the US, State and Federal agencies could share this data feasibly, if not for certain policies. I read stuff like this about salaries, budgets, contracts, e

In the US, State and Federal agencies could share this data feasibly, if not for certain policies. I read stuff like this about salaries, budgets, contracts, etc. regarding various US federal/state/local governments quite often. In reality, almost all that info is already publicly available. Often in excruciating detail. For example: the salary of ever single NYC employee (cops, teachers, etc) https://www.seethroughny.net/payrolls/city-of-new-york https://www.seethroughny.net/payrolls/city-of-new-york. Every California state employee salary (and pensions) https://transparentcalifornia.com/ https://transparentcalifornia.com/. Many state and local government employee salaries are collected by https://openpayrolls.com/ https://openpayrolls.com/. Federal gov contracts at https://www.fpds.gov/fpdsng_cms/index.php/en/ https://www.fpds.gov/fpdsng_cms/index.php/en/. Most states have similar sites for their contracts. The issue in government transparency in the US is not transparency per se. It's that few people bother to actually dig through the raw data or perform good analysis of it.