Description: A Balanced US Budget
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To vote NAY on every bill in the US Senate until an amendment is passed and made law for a Balanced Budget except in the event of a declaration of war. This would mandate Congress to pass budgets and live within their means. A true conservative approach.
It's a pipe dream. Too many Americans are getting benefits from the government and don't want to give anything back. The rich get tax breaks, offshore banking, and use attorneys to avoid paying taxes. Corporate welfare in for form of tax breaks, bail outs. Government workers that feel entitled to benefits in retirement no longer afforded to working Americans. The milatary establishment that gets government contracts to build weapons. The poor that get welfare, medicaid, and other assistance. At some point w
For the last 100+ years our politicians have run on the basis of being conservative only to be elected into office and then vote in favor of spending items that have spiraled the national debt year after year, and their only solution to date has been to raise the debt ceiling and borrow more money. Asking them to solve the debt crisis won't happen until they are forced to act. It is easier for them to vote for a higher limit then pass a balanced budget.