Posted on 04/05/2011 5:29:15 PM PDT by WOBBLY BOB
If passed by the House and Senate and ratified by the states, the new Balanced Budget Amendment will:
1.Force Congress to balance the federal budget each year; 2.Limit federal spending to no more than 18 percent of GDP; and 3.Prevent tax increases
Furthermore, the only way for Congress to get around these limitations is with a 2/3 super-majority vote in the House and Senate to waive them.
(Excerpt) Read more at senateconservatives.com ...
Can he do it? Not if you stop him.
Shut down this stink’n government for a year. Hey dems, the world might start loving us again if you do . . and after all that’s what’s really important isn’t it?
No piece of paper can make congress do what it doesn’t want to do. Who’s going to make them, the Supreme Court?
It’s more likely to get congress to declare war to avoid balancing the budget rather than actually balance the budget.
the constitution already calls for a balanced budget and the means to collect the deficit...
it is being ignored.
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I could have sworn that “balanced budget legislation” passed many years ago. Or am I thinking of my state of California?
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