A Balanced Budget Consensus

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Posted: January 28, 2012

The Tax and Spend Spectator

It is central to a free society that every man owns his own soul. Thus the First Amendment guarantees freedom of religion.

A free society must not live in fear of the state: hence the Second Amendment.

We do not trust democracy or the separation of powers to protect freedom of religion or of the press, or the right to keep and bear arms. In those cases, the Constitution was specifically amended to highlight the danger and protect us.

Then where in the U.S. Constitution, designed primarily to limit the power and scope of the federal government, is there a limit to the size and cost of the state?

Did everyone in Philadelphia just assume this was understood? Sort of the way they forgot to mention property rights–because everyone assumed they were assumed?

For at least 30 years now, conservatives have been working to enact a Balanced Budget Amendment (BBA) to the federal Constitution to prohibit or limit Congress’s ability to borrow money.

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