Maybe. Balanced budget and term limits will never come from congress so the states will have to via A5.
Maybe. Balanced budget and term limits will never come from congress so the states will have to via A5.
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A balance budget means cutting mandatory spending like Social Security and Medicare.
The discretionary spending that just passed was $1.7 trillion and for all the rhetoric about pork, half of it was military or military type spending.
Over $4 trillion of the Federal Budget is mandatory spending that can only be changed by Congress.
Getting Federal receipts and outlays within reason doesn’t take a balanced budget gimmick, it takes a Congress with some intestinal fortitude.