[Jonty30]

An enforced balance budget, with a mandatory paydown of the debt, would be a great amendment.

[Aevery_Freeman]

Ummm...we may need a payment plan or are you advocating canceling the debt?

if you did, our paper money won't be worth the bits it takes to encode it.

[aces]

agreed,

federal accountability to the states should be the path..
states should have balanced budgets, any thing left could be “given” to the federal government for approved projects, and remove the right of the federal gangstamint to tax and raise money at all..
Reign in their scope of power to the original framework of the constitution..A convention of states could be effective, but honestly if something like that passed, looking at what is happening now, there would be blood in the streets..no easy choices, save America for the people that made it great