There is no place in the Constitution that requires a budget. I would be more in favor of first having a constitutionally required, honest budget required each year by a date certain. With it would be a requirement to report on adherence to the previous year’s budget down to the dollar, income verses expenditures.
We can look later at whether we want to require it be balanced. I prefer over-taxation to borrowing authority. Over-taxation will eventually hack people off.
“no place in the Constitution that requires a budget...
...a constitutionally required budget each year...”
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There is only this vague reference in Article 1 Section 9:
“a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time”
I would like to see an approval of an annual budget required as the first order of business of congress.