I still like Buffet’s solution for deficit reduction the best: Any year in which there is a budget deficit, all of the members of the current House and Senate may not run for reelection.
How long do you think it would take to fix the deficit with this in place?
Notice Buffet has no mention of a President being able to run for reelection after the ruination of the economy by a 1.5 trillion dollar deficit directly from his policies and spending.
Yep...must be Congress. Our new House is taking the bruising for four years of Democratic catastrophe, and I cringe every time I hear someone bagging on ‘congress’. This is the new meme to take out our new majority and many of the recently elected tea party inspired members.
I would add a rider - “Elected and appointed officials get paid out of what’s left over after the other bills are paid.”
Problem 1: The House runs every two years. One third of the Senate runs every two years. So none of them are running for reelection every other year.
Problem 2: The period of when Congress runs for election is fixed by a little thing called the United States Constitution.
Problem 3: Silly, impossible, make-believe fixes are soooo much easier than real, hard choices.
They’d just fix the deficit by raising taxes.