Balanced Budget Amendment

Do not amend the Constitution to require a balanced federal budget. Defcit spending is appropriate sometimes ---- in a poor economy to invest in the future and make up for a lack of private spending. Balanced budgets are appropriate sometimes --- in a good economy to pay back the debt built up in the poor economy. Balanced budget amendments in the states usually mean no tax increases, only spending cuts of the programs that benefit the most vulnerable. We would all be affected by a balanced budget amendment. It would tie the hands of our government and enshrine the growing inequity between the rich and the poor.