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To: Amendment10
A balanced budget needs to include a provision which enumerates Justice John Marshall's official clarification of Congress's limited power to lay taxes.

Actually this one does, and the provisions have teeth!

This is the Goldwater bill, and it's not my favorite. I prefer the Convention of States legislation being advanced by the Citizens for Self-Governance, but I have to count myself as a supporter of any Article V legislation on principle, if not entirely on policy.

I haven't read through all of the bill (it's a headache!), but the anti-taxing stuff is awesome. Not only does it seriously limit how much the feds can spend, it totally limits borrowing, and makes non-compliance or attempts by the president to do an end-run around the law an impeachable offense!

Here's a link... just take a look at Section 4... it'll make your eyes water!

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4 posted on 03/22/2014 8:56:33 PM PDT by Strawberry AZ
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To: Strawberry AZ; All
I'm reading Section 4 now.

I think that Section 4 should include the option for state lawmakers to impeach both president AND members of Congress if Congress doesn't act 30 days after the president doesn't act. (Speaking of which, I'd like to see a provision which repeals 16th and 17th Amendments.)

Also, for appropriation bills initiated by the House of Representatives, the proposed Balance Budget amendment need to incorporate wording from attempted enumerated powers acts into bill, requiring Congress to cite specific constitutional clauses in any appropriations bill which reasonably justify each appropriation under Congress's constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.

Also, the amendment needs to make clear that Senate majority leader will tried for treason if Senate guts a House appropriations bill and replaces contents with appropriations legislation, as Obamacare Democratcare bill allegedly was, as Clause 1 of Section 7 of Article I prohibits the Senate from initiating such bills.

6 posted on 03/22/2014 9:34:14 PM PDT by Amendment10
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