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“You shouldn’t go around touting that you balanced your budget when your deficit is $44 billion.” Good advice, no? Well, Sheila Weinberg said it first. Ms. Weinberg has taken on the world’s most yawner of a topic, accounting, and is trying to get your attention. If we don’t (or can’t) follow our governments’ accounts, politicians and bureaucrats will rob us blind.
How can you lose definitively and then win a resounding victory anyway? Well, it helps if you’re Clint Bolick. Bolick wrote the book on how local governments often turn into freedom-killing leviathans. The book is called, in fact, Leviathan: The Growth of Local Government and the Erosion of Liberty.
Defending Property Rights: Bill Brody, Port Chester, NY
For years, bureaucrats across the country have been able to bulldoze private property rights with eminent domain abuse without even blinking—and in New York, they didn’t even give you a chance to fight back.
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It looks like citizens of Milwaukee, Wisconsin have a good chance of stopping a fat pay raise of the sort that politicians love to give themselves.
Riparian Owners of Illinois Ask Legislators to Protect Property Rights
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In her mission to inform the public about the importance of straightforward government accounting, Sheila Weinberg, the founder and CEO of the Institute for Truth in Accounting, draws her inspiration from Thomas Jefferson.
When is a non-profit energy company set up to save taxpayers money not non-profit and not saving taxpayers money? Short answer: when it’s the Illinois Energy Consortium.
Crazy Parents for School Choice
In Oregon, a new piece of legislation aims to increase choice in Oregon’s schools. The bill hasn’t graduated to law yet. So for now it’s worth noting that it didn’t appear from nowhere. People, ordinary people, got involved. Crazy parents, actually...
Tell Target: Don't Bulldoze Property Rights!
Small businesses are at risk - stand up for property rights today. Click here to read more and to download a printable flyer that you can give to the manager at your local Target store.
Bloggers Take Action for Accountable Government
It looks like Todd Rowden isn’t the only one who has reached his “Popeye moment”—several Illinois bloggers are also taking action to publicize the situation that Rowden uncovered involving millions of taxpayer dollars and the public school system.
California Group Wins for Accountable Government...And Stays Together To Do More
Steve Sherman, co-chairman of the California group NoGRAB, helped rally Gardena citizens together to stand for accountable city government. Now, even after victory, NoGRAB continues to work for property rights state-wide.
Standing up for Property Rights in Illinois
Kirk Denz and his wife, Cindy, closed on their house on Wooster Lake just 8 hours before their son was born three-and-a-half years ago—and like most lake property owners, they looked forward to enjoying the water with their family and friends. But their local government had other plans.
