balanced budget

It’s time for a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution.

Cutting taxes — as opposed to restraining the growth in future tax increases or swapping a reduction in property taxes for an increase in the state sales tax — appears to be a nearly insurmountable obstacle.

How debt is shaping up to be our undoing.

Illinois now has the worst credit rating in the municipal bond market. Moody’s Investment Services pegs Illinois’ debt at Baa3, and it could further downgrade that credit rating later in 2018.

Arizona’s legislature will host a national planning session, authorizing rules and procedures for an upcoming future national amendment convention.

The remote northern edge of the American Rocky Mountains, in northern Idaho and western Montana,  is the last stronghold of the John Birch Society.  These two States are where passage…

Unless lawmakers in local and state governments act now, the problem of underfunded public pension plans will come ashore in the foreseeable future, hitting taxpayers with tax hikes and crippling debt, a true financial hurricane caused by decades of elected officials’ poor planning.

In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, we listen in to a presentation given by Kyle Maichle – Project Manager of Constitutional Reform. Maichle is speaking to a tea party group based out of Princeton, Illinois, about an Article V Convention approach to reining in the national debt and the federal government.