Congress would never consider the line-item veto as it would take away their power to add pork to bills.
As I see it, the only option would be to bypass Congress and call a Convention of States. But a decent number of states are now run by crazy liberals. So that would probably go nowhere.
Bottom line: Hyperinflation and massive civil unrest, sooner or later.
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I agree. A Constitutional Convention is probably going to be required, since Congress sees spending as a re-election tool.
Perhaps we could get a one-bill-one-program rule passed, so a bill doesn’t contain 2600 pages, multiple spending programs, and is given to the members the night before the vote.
“As I see it, the only option would be to bypass Congress and call a Convention of States. “
The problem with a convention is the delegates will, for the most part be ordinary citizens. The wealthiest liberals could offer say ten or twenty million dollars to every delegate to vote for whatever the billionaire wanted. At the original congress there was no one in existence who could have done something like that. Nope. We had better make the constitution work as it is written or face what could be a horrible future.
Fiscal discipline ONLY comes when money creation is out of the hands of politicians. There has never been a case in history where unbacked, fiat money has not led to currency debasement and collapse of government and society. Printed, fiat money is pure heroin for politicians, particularly democratically elected ones.
This was well known to our founders. That's why they specified gold and silver as money.
The only good news is that other countries have some form of the same system, so in terms of relative power, which nations are destroying themselves faster than us?