Jo has lived and worked in western Massachusetts since the late 1990s, arriving fresh out of New York City’s Hunter College School of Social Work where she focused on homelessness policy, prison reform, and earned an MSW.
The long and complicated budget processes at both the state and federal levels makes it almost impossible for a citizen to know where their tax dollars are going. Accountability is impossible without this basic understanding. My bill (S.2031, An Act advancing taxpayers’ right to know) requires an information statement to be mailed to all taxpayers showing the allocation of their federal and state tax revenue.