I would be excited if they just came up with an amendment requiring an annual budget; better a balanced one, but I’ll even settle for the existence of a budget requirement.
“No money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law; and a regular statement and account of the receipts and expenditures of all public money shall be published from time to time.”
Phht, just another dead letter.
Well, that might "buy us some time." Certainly if we do not rein in runaway federal spending, leading to unconscionable federal debts so vast that already it would take several generations of future taxpayers — our children and grandchildren at the very least —to pay down. But then Washington continues to pile onto the existing national debt load each and every year, like clockwork.
If this situation is not corrected, then America is going to fall into a Black Hole from which it CANNOT extricate itself. It's just a matter of time. Then we will witness a national "fire sale," total societal breakdown and social chaos.
So a Balanced Budget Amendment is urgently needed, since Congress evidently cannot discipline itself.
But to me, a BBA is just a "finger in the dike," an attempt to forestall an impending disaster for yet a little while longer. What a BBA does not reach to, is the roots of the disorder that is setting up the disaster.
To get to the roots of that disorder, I truly believe that constitutional amendments strengthening States' Tenth Amendment powers are most urgently needed.
Just some thoughts, dear brother in Christ. FWTW