Should Texans Have the Right to Know Where Our Tax Dollars Go?

      For my second post I have chosen an article From the Austin American Statesman titled Open Books on Legislative Pensions; which discusses the Anti disclosure laws that have been passed over the last decade here in Texas. In a recent attempt to secure information on the cumulative total of dollar amounts for the pensions collected by Texas's 103 former law makers, an advocate group known as Texans for Public Justice were denied this information  by Travis County State District Judge Lora Livingston.

     Where I can understand why an individual should be allowed to keep the amount they are collecting form public record. I would have agree with the author on the fact that how Texans tax dollars are being used should be made public, afterall this group is not asking about individual benifits recived but the total of all 103 pesions.

      By keeping this information from Texans to me automaticaly raises red flags about what politicans are doing with our tax dollars. At a time when expeditures being cut is causing the underfunding of public schools and other programs to be the normal way of life, there should be no doubt about where Texan's tax dollars are going. After all why should funding for the future generations be cut while lobbyists wine and dine politicians at the expence of tax payers.