A Balanced Budget Amendment is stupid. It is an admission of failure. You admit you cannot pass a balanced budget before a BBA and you definitely won’t pass one after the BBA. It takes fewer votes to pass a balanced budget than to pass the amendment doesn’t it?
Amen amen and amen. A balanced budget amendment is sheer idiocy for more reasons than I can count.
I agree that introducing a BBA with a Dem majority in either house is just grandstanding.
But I like the idea of a BBA in general. We have one here at the state level, and it works. Always plenty of crowing from the usual quarters when we go into recession and they have to make mandatory cuts, but cut they do. And it’s kept us out of the kind of fiscal trouble that’s plagued many states the last 5-6 years.