“You are correct. No agreement to bind a future congress to cutting is enforceable. But any tax increase continues until a future congress passes a bill through both houses, and the President signs. Similarly, debt incurred today will need to be paid in the future.”
Outstanding post and most succintly put. Why can’t just one of our guys put it this way when some talking head on national TV gives them the opening?
“You are correct. No agreement to bind a future congress to cutting is enforceable. But any tax increase continues until a future congress passes a bill through both houses, and the President signs. Similarly, debt incurred today will need to be paid in the future.”
A Constitutional Amendment sure is binding.