By Evaristo Lara
Apr 23, 2024, 17:57 PM EDT
Robert Francis Kennedy Jr., independent presidential candidate, is committed to making every penny of government spending transparent and showing it online so that any interested citizen can consult it 24 hours a day.
During a campaign rally in Michigan, The Washington lawyer referred to the transparency with which his administration would operate in the event of victory in the November presidential elections.
“I’m going to put the entire US budget on the blockchain so that any American, every American can look up every budget item in the entire budget any time they want, 24 hours a day“He pointed out in relation to the transaction book associated with cryptocurrencies through which their behavior in the market can be understood.
Even though this sounds very interesting, the truth is that the task would require a titanic task, which would initially require a lot of personnel assigned to the project, which goes against the idea of reducing bureaucracy and thus part of the government expenditure.
In fact, the federal budget and how it is spent is often the task of government watchdogs like the Government Accountability Office.
Nevertheless, The innovation that RFK Jr. proposes is to make it available to any ordinary citizen eager to know what their taxes are invested in.
And so that there are no doubts about crazy expenses as happened in previous governments, the independent candidate issued a comment with a certain degree of sarcasm.
“”We’re going to have 300 million eyes on our budget, and if someone is spending $16,000 on a toilet seat, everyone will know.” express.
At the moment, the results of Most polls suggest that the probability of seeing Kennedy Jr. succeed on the ballot is distant, since its margin of citizen support reaches only 13%.
Furthermore, his former Democratic colleagues do not stop attacking him because they consider that his true objective is to prevent Joe Biden from being re-elected by favoring Donald Trump along the way.
However, the nephew of the former president assassinated in 1963 has many states left where he can access the ballot and time is a factor against him.
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