You deserve to know where your tax dollars are going

Open the Books was founded in 2011 on a simple principle: Taxpayers deserve to know where their money is going and what it is being spent on.

Americans pay “property taxes to fund local education. “So don’t you want to know where this money is going?” asks Matthew Tyrmand, deputy director of the Florida-based nonprofit Open the Books.

Open the Books works at the federal, state and local levels and submits thousands of Freedom of Information Act requests each year to obtain and publish records of government spending.

Open the Books publishes a “checkbook” for each U.S. state, detailing how much the state spends annually and on what.

Tyrmand joins The Daily Signal Podcast as part of this week’s Money and Transparency series. He shares the history of Open the Books and takes time to honor the organization’s founder, Adam Andrzejewski, who passed away unexpectedly in August.

Listen to the podcast below: