“All a balanced budget amendment does is makes you have a balanced plan. But that plan can include as much borrowing as you like. And that plan can include overly rosy projections on everything.”
Apparently many people don’t realize that. It gives certain republicans a great opportunity for political posturing, though, doesn’t it?
Lookit, balanced budgets aren’t perfect. You can mock and poke fun at those who believe you got to start somewhere.
Most of us have worked with budgets before, often on the job, departmental budgets and such, for sure in our own households.
First, you gotta start somewhere. It does not help to shake in horror at the work that might involved, to ponder the pitfalls, to consider it an effort of too much time. You gotta start somewhere and by me, you got 67% of the population in favor of a balanced budget, seems as good a time as any to start.
I realize that you consider so many of us too stupid to understand the nuance of the horror of balancing a federal budget so I’ll allow that we’re all dummies.
The benefits of a required, even if the thing NEVER works out as predicted, even if the politicos lie about projected revenue (or less likely, are legitimately mistaken), it FORCES the funds allocated to be PART OF THE PUBLIC DEBATE.
It takes the spending of our money from out of the congressional cloak rooms and puts in front of our eyeballs.
Much like, I whisper softly, this debt ceiling raise has finally made the American public aware at just how badly congress has handled our money.
But silly me, I’m just a simple soul thinking that those charged with taking the monies of others should have to account for it, to allow input BEFORE it’s spent.