balanced budget
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Budgets/TaxesFeatured
The ‘Blue Dog’ Solution to the Debt Crisis
by Barry Poulson and John Merrifield July 11, 2019It’s time for a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution.
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Budgets/Taxes
Texas Lawmakers Looking to Cut Taxes Should Control Spending First
by Joe Barnett June 13, 2019Cutting 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.
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Budgets/Taxes
Is a Financial Crisis Inevitable?
by Barry Poulson and John Merrifield August 23, 2018How debt is shaping up to be our undoing.
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Budgets/TaxesEconomicsGovernment
Illinois Is Better Off Bankrupt
by Barry Poulson and John Merrifield June 20, 2018Illinois 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.
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Constitution
Arizona Legislature Hosts Balanced Budget Amendment Convention Planning Meeting
by Jesse Hathaway September 8, 2017Arizona’s legislature will host a national planning session, authorizing rules and procedures for an upcoming future national amendment convention.
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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…
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Budgets/Taxes
Unless Lawmakers Act Now, Pension Debt Hurricane Will Swamp Taxpayers
by Jesse Hathaway October 27, 2016Unless 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.
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Kyle Maichle: The Article V Convention Movement
by Kyle Maichle March 21, 2016In 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.
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Kyle Maichle: Convention of States Project
by Donald Kendal December 23, 2015In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, Kyle Maichle, project manager for Constitutional Reform at The Heartland Institute joins Host Donald Kendal to talk about the Convention of States Project (COS).
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Kyle Maichle: Balanced Budget Amendment Task Force
by Donald Kendal December 17, 2015In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, Kyle Maichle, project manager for Constitutional Reform at The Heartland Institute joins Host Donald Kendal to talk about the Balanced Budget Amendment Task Force (BBATF).
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FeaturedLibertyMediaPodcast
This Memorial Day, if You Listen to One Podcast, Let This Be the One
by Nick Dranias May 25, 2015We owe it to the men and women who risked and lost their lives to use the ultimate tool we have to restore the Republic — the power states hold to amend the constitution by convention and the power of interstate compacts to make it user-friendly.
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Budgets/TaxesFeatured
How the States Can Make the Debt Ceiling Debate Real
by Nick Dranias February 11, 2015For the past year or so, there has been no statutory limit on how much the federal government borrows. The debt ceiling was abandoned in the last budget deal. But in the coming weeks, it is scheduled to return—along with the predictable illusion of a debate over whether to lift the ceiling or not.
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EconomicsFeaturedLegal Affairs
The Founders Wanted a Laser-Targeted Article V Convention (Part 7 of 8)
by Nick Dranias January 24, 2015This is part 7 of the 8 part series establishing that the laser-focus of the Compact for America approach to organizing an Article V convention with the specific job advancing and ratifying a pre-drafted, specific federal Balanced Budget Amendment is clearly, unequivocally, and overwhelmingly what the Founders expected from the state-originated amendment process.