A balanced budget amendment will guarantee ever-increasing taxes year upon year. The excuse for increased taxes will be it is constitutionally mandated by the balanced budget amendment. It is ONLY spending reductions and future limits that stop the hemorrhaging. The new amendment that MUST transpire to set things in stone is one that simply states “if a government action is not explicitly specified in the Constitution, it is forbidden to the federal government.”
Not if it also limits taxes. I'd like to see an amendment that rolls back the debt until the Income Tax itself is repealed. The Income Tax Amendment made all of us into free range slaves and grew Fedzilla into the monster it has become. It basically turned the rest of the Constitution into toilet paper.