Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks during a campaign rally in Grand Rapids, Mich., on Feb. 10. comes from income taxes — there are lots of ways to investigate. The White House Office of Management and Budget data on receipts and expenditures broken down by government agency and over time. There are 58 different spreadsheets over there, so dive in., a weekly dive into the data behind the news.
This is a bad idea. It is also one that aligns so perfectly with Kennedy’s approach to politics that it’s hard to believe no one predicted this is where he’d end up.blockchain — is a distributed, public database. Think of it like a secure, shared Google spreadsheet to which you can only add new lines of information. Blockchains became popular alongside cryptocurrency, with transactions in bitcoin, for example, being recorded on such a database.
The let-everyone-see-the-budget idea is just the federal government version of do-your-own-research, an understandable impulse in the modern era but an undeniably“I fear that the inevitable success of this movement — if pursued alone, without any sensitivity to the full complexity of the idea of perfect openness — will inspire not reform, but disgust,” he wrote. “The ‘naked transparency movement,’ as I will call it here, is not going to inspire change.