Elon's idea for balancing the budget

[Votto]

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/elon-musk-backs-warren-buffett-151100160.html

If Congress cannot balance a budget, they are not eligible to run for office again.

 

[DGS49]

Simple is not the same as easy. The simple solutions would be quite painful, and would be fought, tooth & nail by the beneficiaries and the Media.

The best solution is to somehow put a watchdog over legislation that prevents creating or supporting any expenditures not authorized to Congress in Article I. Have Congress appoint a committee of Congressmen and Senators or something.

Congress has no "power" to fund benefits to INDIVIDUALS, but only the common good. This includes food, housing, medical care (other than for the Armed Forces and Veterans), and education. Congress has no Article I power to fund any of it. And of course, they have no power to save the planet, either. Or public broadcasting.

And for those who will want to argue "general welfare" wording, that argument was lost two hundred years ago. If it were the guiding principle then all of Section 8 would have been superfluous.

Stop the unconstitutional spending - leave those things to the States, the private sector, and personal/family resources.

(SS and. Medicare are not part of the discussion, as they are not paid for by income taxes).

 

[pknopp]

It's not Elon's idea. We can do that very thing now but won't.

 

[Votto]

Simple is not the same as easy. The simple solutions would be quite painful, and would be fought, tooth & nail by the beneficiaries and the Media.

The best solution is to somehow put a watchdog over legislation that prevents creating or supporting any expenditures not authorized to Congress in Article I. Have Congress appoint a committee of Congressmen and Senators or something.

Congress has no "power" to fund benefits to INDIVIDUALS, but only the common good. This includes food, housing, medical care (other than for the Armed Forces and Veterans), and education. Congress has no Article I power to fund any of it. And of course, they have no power to save the planet, either. Or public broadcasting.

And for those who will want to argue "general welfare" wording, that argument was lost two hundred years ago. If it were the guiding principle then all of Section 8 would have been superfluous.

Stop the unconstitutional spending - leave those things to the States, the private sector, and personal/family resources.

(SS and. Medicare are not part of the discussion, as they are not paid for by income taxes).

The states clearly need to rise up and amend the Constitution for the first time in US history.

The Founders provided them that right for a reason, and the reason is here.

The Swamp will never willingly give up their credit cards.

The Article V movement to do just that has been underway for a while now. They need 2/3 of the states and I think are almost there.

Of course, socialists will fight this with every fiber of their being because they continuously demand that everything should be "free" cuz X, Y, and Z is their right after all.



It literally would be a death blow to them, but it would help save the Republic.

 

[Votto]

About 74% of Americans favor a balanced budget amendment

https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/69090/recent-polling-on-u-s-balanced-budget-amendment-or-other

So, what you will see from the Swamp oligarchs is gymnastic level precision to bypass the democratic will of the people on this issue.

 

[Independent thinker]

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/elon-musk-backs-warren-buffett-151100160.html

If Congress cannot balance a budget, they are not eligible to run for office again.

Who is they? Who is Congress - just the House or both the House and the Senate combined? For the sake of playing devil's advocate, let's say that it is the House's fault that the budget doesn't get balanced. Let's also say that the vote was 218-217 to pass an unbalanced budget. Does that mean that everyone in the House can't run for office again, including the 217 who were for a balanced budget? Does that also extend to the 100 Senators, who mostly voted for the balanced budget but were stopped by 218 members of the House? Or do we just do it on a case by case basis, where only those who voted against a balanced budget can't run for office again but everyone who voted for it can? Let's face the truth, Musk's plan is actually unworkable.

 

[Crepitus]

The simple solutions would be quite painful, and would be fought, tooth & nail by the beneficiaries and the Media.

And by that you mean everyone.

 

[Votto]

Who is they? Who is Congress - just the House or both the House and the Senate combined? For the sake of playing devil's advocate, let's say that it is the House's fault that the budget doesn't get balanced. Let's also say that the vote was 218-217 to pass an unbalanced budget. Does that mean that everyone in the House can't run for office again, including the 217 who were for a balanced budget? Does that also extend to the 100 Senators, who mostly voted for the balanced budget but were stopped by 218 members of the House? Or do we just do it on a case by case basis, where only those who voted against a balanced budget can't run for office again but everyone who voted for it can? Let's face the truth, Musk's plan is actually unworkable.

I would say those the refuse to vote for the balance gets the ax.

But hey, the sky is the limit because nothing is being proposed like this in Congress nor will be

Again, Congress is not going to limit their own power in any way to vote for something like this. It is therefore, up to the states.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

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