By Tristan Fitzpatrick, from October 2020, includes “… Quite frankly, reports like these are designed to make you feel angry. ‘How dare they waste my money like that, for programs that I don’t benefit from!’  This is written to make you feel that you, as a taxpayer, are somehow detached from the rest of your community and the state at large––that there are givers and takers. Nonsense. Our public employees keep our state and communities running, and they’ve earned pensions that will keep them secure in retirement.” (Note: Truth in Accounting is a non-partisan organization. Our mission is to help inform taxpayers and citizens, including government employees.)