Recent content by johnwk

Well, on that we agree and why Congress must be stopped from adding to the national debt year after year, after year.

By "realist" do you mean that Congress has no intention to end adding to the national debt, even thought that debt now exceeds $136 trillion when including unfunded debt liabilities?

No. He should not throw it into the trash. But Gov. DeSantis should reveal the text, of the Balanced Budget Amendment he supports.

I heard Ran Paul on Newsmax this evening complaining about the deficit, and yet he ignores our Founder's intended remedy, the Fair Share Balanced Budget Amendment, by which to deal with deficits.. Why?

See: Control an Otherwise Uncontrollable Congress With States-Backed Amendments June 9th, 2025 "When Congress fails to deliver the goods on its own, it’s going to take the people to do it — Congress’ boss. And Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis has been promoting the exact means to do it. As a...

The "good fight" is to fight to have a structural mechanism under rule of law, to extinguish an annual deficit caused by Congress's borrowing. Our Founder's remedy, the Fair Share Balanced Budget Amendment, would make each State's Congressional Delegation immediately accountable to their...

Your are correct about shuffling chairs on the Titanic, but I'm not sure how that relates to the Fair Share Balanced Budget Amendment, our founders remedy to a deficit created by Congress's borrowing.

Well, Trump certainly supports no tax on tips or overtime, which is in harmony with Section 1 of the Fair Share Balanced Budget Amendment “SECTION 1. The Sixteenth Amendment is hereby repealed and Congress is henceforth forbidden to lay any tax or burden calculated from profits, gains, sales...

How so. Please explain.

Your insulting deflection is noted. You avoided answering my question. Does Rand Paul support the Fair Share Balanced Budget Amendment, our founders remedy to a deficit created by Congress's borrowing?

The old saying goes, if you are not part of a solution, you are part of the problem. Does Rand Paul support the Fair Share Balanced Budget Amendment, our founders remedy to a deficit created by Congress's borrowing?

When Rand Paul starts promoting the Fair Share Balanced Budget Amendment I'll believe he is sincere in wanting to put a stop to increasing the national debt, year after year, after year.

. It seems obvious that those advising Trump, who constantly demand having an annually balanced federal budget and forcing fiscal restraints upon Congress’s spending, suspiciously avoid any mention of our Founder’s original tax plan which would, if returned to, accomplish their asserted goals...

And why is that? "Trump said he wanted to raise or eliminate the limit on how much the federal government can borrow. Doing so now would mean the much-debated move would happen on President Joe Biden's watch and be resolved before Trump takes office, when he'll want to implement his agenda...

Massive debt = high inflation, lowers quality of life, and disrupts a stable economy . See Here's why economists are so worried about soaring US debt levels Apr 20, 2024 The writing is on the wall as investors pull out of long-term US bond market. See: US debt reckoning escalates sharply...