The most effective method to balancing the budget is by ensuring Congress eliminates those federal programs and agencies that are not associated with any of the enumerated powers listed in Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution. There will not be any chance of balancing the budget until we return to the Constitution with the limited form of government our founding fathers intended when they wrote the Constitution.
“The most effective method to balancing the budget is by ensuring Congress eliminates those federal programs and agencies that are not associated with any of the enumerated powers listed in Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution. There will not be any chance of balancing the budget until we return to the Constitution with the limited form of government our founding fathers intended when they wrote the Constitution.”
Amen. There will never be a shearing down of a Government that lasts more than a single term or two, it (Government) is a beast that consumes and grows until trimmed back and pruned to the proper level.
And there should be no taxation beyond levies and duties on products, as you well know, and are a champion of campaigning for. But I think even the FairTax is far, far too generous a contribution, but it’s the best I know of...That’s why I’m on your list. :)
I couldn’t agree more which makes this whole amendment talk kind of Academic, after all if they don’t follow the existing Constitution what makes us think they will follow any new amendment to the Constitution?
Clearly we need some way of compelling that compliance, a way that is not depended upon people THEY THEMSELVES APPOINT like Federal judges.