Federal Money

When doing our readings this week from our book Outspoken free speech stories by Nan Levinson, one part really stuck out to me although everything in the short piece sticks with you. The book states the federal government spends 6 billion dollars A YEAR on maintaining classified documents(pg.41), which is secrets that it keeps from United states citizens. I can find a lot of other uses for 6 billion dollars other then keeping secrets, that is an expensive habit. Do you think that the government should be using tax payer money to keep information hidden from us? With the author also stating that in 1995 400,000 "secrets" were created how much money are we paying per secret to keep it hidden? and how is this money being spent? I think that the government should make anything that comes in contact with tax payer transparent in its use and purpose. Our whole systems run off of the sweat of the people who work and labor to have their money taken from them to pay for government secrets? What is your take on this? Should the government have to make everything they use tax payer money on apparent to its citizens?