Assemblyman Tom O’Mara (R,I,C-Big Flats) is announcing a new Web site – www.stopgovernmentwasteny.com – that will aid taxpayers and state employees in reporting any waste of taxpayer dollars. The site was created by Assemblyman O’Mara and his colleagues as part of their continued efforts to reduce the amount of taxpayer dollars lost to annual government waste, fraud and abuse.

The Web site will encourage the direct input of taxpayers and state employees who can anonymously report wasteful acts they have witnessed, or of which they have become aware.  These reports will be made public and will be submitted to the proper authorities.  The reports will also assist Assemblyman O’Mara’s legislative efforts to reduce government waste and ensure greater fiscal accountability and responsibility in state government.  Some of the features of the new Web site include:

• Offering taxpayers and state employees an on-line mechanism to report known instances of state government waste directly on the Web site – it also allows individuals reporting such tips an ability to retain their anonymity;

• Listing of several recent examples uncovered by the media of state government waste, fraud and misuse of taxpayer dollars; and

• An outline of how government waste leads to higher taxes, a strain on the delivery of essential public services and further erodes public confidence in state government and the men and women serving in it.

“This Web site gives New Yorkers the ability to reduce wasteful government spending and discourage the theft of important public resources and will be an important tool in the fight to stop government dysfunction,” said O’Mara.   “By reducing spending and eliminating waste, the Legislature will have more leverage to lower taxes in order to create an atmosphere that promotes job creation.”