TexasBudgetSource.com understands that you want to know how your elected leaders are spending your tax dollars.

The 2008-09 state budget passed by the Texas Legislature in 2007 included almost $168 billion in appropriations covered in the more than 900 page bill. It includes the appropriation for dozens of agencies and hundreds of programs, which are often written about in jargon understood only by insiders. We’ve studied the budget to present you with a clear picture of how the state is spending your money now and how this stacks up to the last 10 - even 20 - years.

[1]	Do you want to know how much the state has spent on education or how much it spends per pupil? Follow the link to Texas Budget by Area [2] for this information and much more!
[3]	Do you want to know how fast the state’s budget has grown, or how much more money you would have in your pocket if the budget grew only as fast as inflation and the growth in the state’s population? Follow the link to the Texas Budget Overview [4] for a historical look at state spending.
[5]	If you want to find exactly how the state has been spending this money, you can also follow the link to the Texas Comptroller’s “Where the Money Goes” searchable database [6] that has made Texas one of the nation’s leaders in the transparency movement.