This is a well informed article, as are all of the author's articles.
To: Veritas_et_libertas
There is an old rule of thumb that if a fighter aircraft looks good, it is. I have questions about the F-35.
2 posted on
07/28/2011 6:21:10 AM PDT by
fso301
To: Veritas_et_libertas
Oops! Sorry for posting on the wrong thread.
3 posted on
07/28/2011 6:21:57 AM PDT by
fso301
To: Veritas_et_libertas
There’s an awful lotta “coulda, maybe, possibly” kinds of objections, along with a single study against a supermajority. I still remain supportive of a BBA.
5 posted on
07/28/2011 6:36:36 AM PDT by
LS
("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
To: Veritas_et_libertas
A Constitutional Amendment, once ratified and adopted, cannot by definition later be found ‘unconstitutional’ and thrown out by any court.
6 posted on
07/28/2011 6:39:20 AM PDT by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: Veritas_et_libertas
As George Mason University Economics Professor Walter E. Williams has pointed out when he's guest hosted Rush Limbaugh's show several times, EVERY budget Congress passes is a "balanced budget".
In the sense that Congress proposes taxes that will "pay" for the spending. And before the taxes ever get a chance to come in, the money is borrowed. Et voila, a "balanced budget"!
The Balanced Budget Amendment is nothing more than a veil we are telling polluticians we want placed over our own eyes.
It's the spending, stupid.
12 posted on
07/28/2011 6:53:20 AM PDT by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
To: Veritas_et_libertas
Fourth and most seriously: A constitutional amendment allowing Congress to spend up to, say, 19% of GDP could concede the constitutionality of all of the thousands of federal domestic spending programs in effect when the federal government last spent under 19% of GDP (in the year 2001). Thus, programs that are now constitutionally suspect and subject to eventual court challenge could be constitutionally insulated by the amendment. Indeed. It's a blank check for the government to do anything whatsoever up to that amount.
To: Veritas_et_libertas
I would like a Constitutional amendment for balanced budgets, too, but we seem to have lost the ability to write them. Once upon a time, they were simple: "Alcohol's illegal". Then, "Alcohol's legal".
This thing was too complicated -- would provide livelihoods for too many lawyers.
17 posted on
07/28/2011 7:18:51 AM PDT by
BfloGuy
(There is no remedy for the inefficiency of public management. -- L. Von Mises)
To: Veritas_et_libertas
We don’t need a BBA. All we need to do is put me in charge for a couple of years. ;)
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