Balanced Budget Amendment Will Be A Mistake

GOP Swears Balanced Budget Amend. Will Make Congress Serious About The Job They’ve Blown Off For Decades.

Smitty expounds on why we don’t need a Balanced Budget Amendment and some things the government can do to bring the budget back in line;

I’m working hard to be constructive here. What will be new about this balanced budget amendment that will give our government a lasting shot of common sense? Will there be an emergency spending loophole? Will we see budgeting, itself, become a purely emergency evolution?
In short, again-prospective-Senator Allen, if we’re going to waste time amending the Constitution to say we should balance the budget, we should also amend it to force Congressmen to sign papers with their real names. They would still behave as cartoon characters, one suspects.
No, one suspects this shall amount to nothing more than political theater. Here are some suggestions for what to do to regain some credibility:

• Axe some executive departments. Snuff some Congressional committees.
• Implement a one page tax code. (A call to axe the IRS outright might be seen as extreme.)
• Reduce non-military federal jobs by a percentage equal to jobs lost since BHO was sworn in.

These few items Smitty outlined would make a decent start.