Balance the Budget Yearly Requirement

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The last time the US Budget was Balanced was in 2001.

This has happened only twice in the past half-century: President Lyndon Johnson did it in 1969, and President Bill Clinton from 1998 to 2001. These days, the federal budget is far from balanced.

This policy would require that the budget be balanced by September 30th, every 2 years.

This policy would require that Congress approve a budget that does not exceed the GDP of the previous two-years.

This policy would require full disclosure of allocation of funds to every office to be be relased to the US Public within one day of the budget being passed.

This policy would be enforced by every member of Congress and the Executive Branch being unpaid everyday until the budget is passed.

Common sense dictates that you do not pay for what you cannot afford.

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The problem isn’t that this isn’t a good idea the problem is all the money that funds the elections won’t allow it.

You need a billion dollars of lobby money to get this though.

Please see my policy to fund the lobby money and get the budget balanced without raising taxes.

It’s called the Incentive American Values Act.

Tell me what you think.

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I see where you are going however, lobby money should be as far removed from this process as possible. This should be a basic checkbook balancing process that focuses on the bills that need to be paid to keep the electricity on. Once those bills have been paid, then you can introduce hobbys and passion project funding. That is where lobbying can play a role.

But you pay for the basics first, and if there is money left over, then you move on to special interests.

Our government has a gluttony problem that forces it to pay for things it doesn’t need with money it doesn’t have. Like endless international aid. We should not be in debt with China. We should not have a trillion dollars worth of debt that is larger than our GDP.

Focus on the basics, the rest will follow.

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Have you ever talked to a congress man who wants to pass a balanced budget to find out why their colleagues won’t go along?

If not you thinking at this problem not from experience but from pure wishful thinking.

Trillions of dollars is raw power, it’s not going to stop by saying it should.

People follow incentives. Positive incentives are about 3-5 times more powerful than are negative motivators.

You can’t spank congress into complying when the side that is against you is offering fame and fortune.

It’s just a pipe dream.

Punishment and ridicule will rarely if ever get congress to pass a balance budget.

You are asking people to give away money they are getting now and cut it off in the future all while enduring an onslaught of lobby money given to their primary opponents. Try to figure how you’re going to get people vote yes to their personal financial detriment.

It’s much easier to award people a proper bonus to do the right thing.

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