I have found what you have said interesting and I appreciate the conversation but clearly I am not going to persuade you.
Concerning the surpluses, I already said put in a legal clause so that Congress can only allocate it between refunding taxpayers and paying off some of the debt.
You are taking this convesation to be too adversarial. By all means if you could:
A) Get your ammendment passed
B) Have it work
I would be all for it(though we only have to grow out of the debt)
I would actually be for a complete rewrite of the constitution to abolish the income tax, limit the supremes ternms, end judicial review, clean up the commerce etc etc.
But I will also put a capital budgeting process in where spending would limited and subject to cuts.