Rockefeller’s backdoor financing bypassed voters while the state debt quadrupled

Evidence

To finance such immense physical improvements, he resorted to a variety of “backdoor” financing plans (most of them modeled on Moses’ public authority concept) that allowed the state’s voters no say over them and that preserved the illusion of a “balanced budget”—and even so, during Rockefeller’s Governorship, the state budget would increase by more than 300 percent and the state debt would quadruple. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 4348