1. Giving Congress the chance to tinker with the equation blows it up right there.
2. Define wartime. Congress has not declared an actual war since December 8, 1941.
3. Just out of curiosity does your proposal ever provie a balanced budget or pay down the federal debt?
1. I don’t see any other way. Perhaps you have a better approach that congress would approve of?
2. I think your definition of wartime works quite well. Declaration of war.
3. Balanced budget, paying down fed debt? Does the current plan do that? My answer is the same as theirs.