VALLEY
PATRIOT WEB EXTRA
Rep. Lyons
Demand to Know How Much State Money is
Spent on Illegal Aliens
LYONS' AMENDMENT CLEARS THE HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES
10-5-11
BOSTON – State Representative
Jim Lyons (R-Andover), joined by his
Republican House colleagues, introduced a
"transparency in spending"
amendment to the state supplemental
budget that passed the House of
Representatives. Titled “An
amendment to account for budget
expenditures,” the
Lyons-authored amendment directs the
Executive Office of Administration and
Finance to specify the amount of state
taxpayer funds being spent on benefits
and services for citizens, documented
legal residents, and those whose status
remains undetermined.
“As I talk with taxpayers in the
communities of my district," Lyons
says, "one question that I am
consistently asked is: ‘Where are
our tax dollars being spent?’
“This amendment will help answer
that important question" Lyons
emphasizes. "We are looking for
basic data that should be readily
available to the public. By requiring the
Patrick Administration to share this
information with the public, we will
shine the light of openness and
transparency onto the state spending
process.”
In addition to requiring a report on
taxpayer-funded benefits, the amendment
also asks for a break-down of spending
with respect to legal services,
translation services, the detention of
prisoners, and costs related to the
Health Safety Net program.
"How can we legislators know how to
spend taxpayer funds efficiently,"
Lyons observes, "if we are denied
information about where those tax dollars
are going? Or on whose behalf those tax
dollars are being spent? Or for what
purposes?
“Sharing this knowledge with the
taxpayers of the Commonwealth will enrich
our legislative budgetary debates,”
concludes Lyons. “The reporting of
this essential data is the first step to
answering the question posed to me by
constituents: 'How and where are our tax
dollars being spent?'”
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