Government Accountability
I'm Proposing Mandatory Impact Audits. Every Bill over $5M must define success, followed by an automatic independent review after 3 years to see if those promises were kept. If a program fails to meet its targets, the funding is paused until the Legislature proves it can be fixed.
My core proposal for Impact Audits centers on establishing a legislative mechanism to ensure recurring state spending and tax incentives produce measurable results for taxpayers.
The $4 Million Fiscal Threshold: I'm proposing a comprehensive, independent impact audit for any bill, program, or tax credit package carrying a fiscal note of $4 million or more. This targets high-dollar expenditures where waste, inefficiencies, or unintended consequences have the largest fiscal footprint, without overwhelming auditing capacity on minor administrative bills.
The "Cancel Unused Subscriptions" Framework: This frames outdated or underperforming legislation as costly "recurring government subscriptions." Programs are required to demonstrate clear, data-driven returns on investment — those that fail to meet statutory benchmarks or deliver intended public value get flagged for restructuring, defunding, or outright sunsetting.
Shifting the Burden / Taxpayer Relief: The focus is on cutting corporate subsidies and ineffective special-interest carve-outs so the savings can be redirected back into core essentials — lowering the property tax burden on residential homeowners, funding the Weighted Pupil Unit (WPU) for public education, and supporting senior circuit-breaker relief programs.
Local Infrastructure & Resource Accountability: The same impact-audit principle extends to large-scale developments and utility-heavy commercial projects, like large data centers, to measure their true long-term impact on local water supplies, aquifers, power grids, and local taxpayers before any public subsidies or approvals are granted.