BRETT'S BLOGGING ABOUT PUBLIC BUDGETING

I often have something to say about Public Budgeting ...

• How To Use Millions To Make A Better Philadelphia (December 2019)
• Lawbreaking Finance Honchos Cost Philadelphia Millions (July 2019)
• No Future For Philadelphia History (February 2019)
• Reassess This Mess (January 2019)
• Budget Better: Bet On Budding Efforts (November 2018)
• That Familiar Stink Of Waste And Mismanagement (October 2018)
• Cloudy Forecast For Budgetary Sunshine (September 2018)
• No Calls On Finance Fouls (May 2018)
• We Raise Taxes On A Poor City Because We Run A City Poorly (March 2018)
• Taxes And Death -- Of Sane Policy Making (December 2017)
• Soda Debate Taxes Our Patience (June 2017)
• The Darker The Money The Sweeter Its Use? (May 2017)
• Poor Tax Decisions Make The Poor Pay More In Philadelphia (April 2016)
• Will A Spoonful of Sugar Help the City Budget? (March 2016)
• Incentivize On The Prize (July 2014)
• TIFfing Ettiquette (November 2013)
• Save (All) Our Schools (September 2013)
• Money For Nothing (New) (August 2013)
• Using Actual Values To Move Philadelphia Forward (July 2013)
• School Budget Cuts - A Played-Out Tune (June 2013)
• We Need Tough Fiscal Watch Dogs (December 2012)
• Auditing Delayed Is Accountability Denied (December 2012)
• Be True To Your School (November 2012)
• "Gotcha" Games Make Headlines, Not Change (October 2012)
• AVI Could Be As Easy As ABC (October 2012) 
• We Gotta See It To Believe It (September 2012) 
• PICA: Reject City's Spending Plan (August 2012)  
• Open Sesame (July 2012) 
• Philadelphia's Taxation Without Cessation (July 2012)  
• Why Do It In The Dark? (June 2012)  
• The Blind Leading The Blind (May 2012) 
• A Whole New Tax Game (May 2012) 
• Show Me The Money (March 2012)
• No Tax Increase In 2013? Baloney! (March 2012)
• Philadelphia Could be a Gold Mine of Value (March 2012)
• Budgeting For The Schools We Need (February 2012)
• Taxation Without Cessation (February 2012)
• Mayor Nutter Goes Back To School (January 2012)
• Promises Were Made... (December 2011)
• Call It What You Will -- This Tax Still Stinks (December 2011)
• Missing Money Found, Misled Citizens Defrauded, Misdeeds Go Unpunished (November 2011)
• Free Speech Isn’t Free, But Neither Are City Parades (October 2011)
• City's Still Dodging Property Tax Problem (October 2011)
• City's Assessment More-atorium Is More Of The Same Unfairness (September 2011)
• Solving Philadelphia’s Pension Mess (August 2011)
• Fiscal Oversight Board Should Reject City Financial Plan (July 2011)
• “Temporary” Tax Increase Is Not Temporary; Not Fair (June 2011)
• Tax Cuts Cut? (May 2011)
• Will Council Stop Nutter's Planned Real Estate Tax Hike? (April 2011) 
• Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics in the City Budget (March 2011)
• Suing The City To Fix Real Estate Taxation (February 2011)
• The Mayor Says Our Budget Situation Has Stabilized. Can We Believe It? (January 2011)
• Shifty or Nifty? The Proposed Business Privilege Tax Reform (December 2010)
• Testimony On The Business Privilege Tax Shift Proposal (December 2010)
• Show Me The "Full-Monty" Budget (November 2010)
• Don't DROP It (August 2010)
• Want Better Government?  Just Ask! (July 2010)
• The Mayor's Trippin' -- Philadelphia Needs More Financial Oversight (June 2010)
• FRAUD — Tentative Budget Deal Is A Sham (May 2010)
• Does Philadelphia Have A Tax-And-Don’t-Spend Mayor? (April 2010)
• Pay More, Get Less? The City Can Budget Better (March 2010)
• Honesty Is The Best Budgetary Policy (February 2010)
• Real Estate Taxation Is Now A Real Crime (December 2009)