I know what I am about to post appears off topic but at the root of the matter it has very much to do with anticipated, long-expected and predictable budget clash over insolvency now exposed in DC.
The Most Brilliant and Inspired American Political Innovation of our Time:
http://www.fairtax.org/site/PageServer?pagename=about_faq
Because the multi-ring circus that is the DC budget show is set on a foundation of the 16th Amendment and the above link will demolish this foundation and rebuild it using much stronger material that also conforms with the Original Intent.
And with the FairTax a BBA will not be needed because changes in its tax rate will create feedback that creates a self-regulating action on spending.
I’m 100% in favor of repealing the 16th and 17th amendments and don’t believe we need a BBA. We need to expand the grassroots tea party and ensure we vote in fiscally responsible conservatives. Re-empowering the right of state legislators to elect their own senators per the constitution to represent the interests of their own state governments (or face recall) would go far in defanging and defunding the federal beast.
And I agree, a 10% flat tax on all income (or an appropriately sized flat excise tax on all purchases if that should prove better) should raise enough revenue to support a constitutionally authorized and limited government.