Talk:Balanced Budget Amendment

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[edit] Cleanup

This article is in desperate need of better organization, as it does not have headings or subheadings -Medude24

Sorry- it actually doesn't need cleaning up, it just needs to be wikified. I changed the tag accordingly. --Medude24 05:49, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Merge text parts to "Deficit spending" article

I suggest merging some of the stuff about deficit spending to, well, deficit spending. There can probably be some blurbs about how this amendment might stop (or not stop) the practice, and (well-cited) opinions and statements about the bill. Since deficit spending has its own article, the entire history of it shouldn't be there, I think.

Furthermore, the Amendment text should probably be in Wikisource instead. (UPDATE: It was already in Wikisource, here. The text will be deleted, and a link to Wikisource will be added. --AnOddName 02:56, 13 November 2005 (UTC))

I'll see what I can do... --AnOddName 02:40, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

This article needs a section on the history (1970's to 1990's) and status of the attempt by the states to call a constitutional convention for the purpose of proposing a balanced budget amendment. Over 30 states endorsed the call for a convention, a few short of what was needed. Is that project still viable - or subject to being restarted? 67.171.195.39 05:47, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Very liberal and democratic based. It is the Clinton Era and the Bush Administration. I found wikipedia farily biased until this article. I wont even help fix it.

[edit] This Article needs to be rewritten

This article reads like a history of budget deficits in the United States, instead of a history of a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution. --71.146.41.174 03:10, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup

There are several capitalization errors in this article and one sentance which makes no sense. Other parts of this article have a few unencyclopedic statements ("the maverick presidential bid by H. Ross Perot") which have some POV.70.242.165.24 01:40, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Reform of the Article

As I have had time and motivation, I have been rewriting this article to one about its ostensible subject, BBAs. I will be inserting the text of the August 1982 SJR at the beginning of “Text”, and continuing to add to “History”. Some thought will ultimately have to be given to the content that were already here (before some vandal or accident-prone person pretty-much blanked the page); as some else noted, it isn't so much about a BBA per se as about deficit spending. —12.72.69.132 19:35, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tax Revenue

"In his final State of the Union, President Clinton said the USA should continue to balance its books and pay off the debt entirely. The subsequent technology downturn which began impacting the economy in mid-2000 combined with lost revenue from the Bush Administration's tax cuts as well as the cost to the country from the 9/11 attack and increased spending for domestic and international programs have eliminated Clinton-era surpluses and both the deficit and debt have grown to the largest in US history. However, as a percentage of GDP, the deficit is not the largest in US history."

Did the Bush tax cuts really lower tax revenue?

Revenue Grapgh

This graph from the Heritage Foundation shows revenue actually rising. Which is it really? --Jayson Virissimo 03:05, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

Huh? It clearly shows a downturn in revenue from 2000 to 2004. -- 68.146.220.249 (talk) 03:08, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Confusion

There is a difference between wanting the US to pay back its debt and wanting to have a Constitutional amendment banning a budget deficit (the latter wouldn't have allowed the WWII spending, for instance), yet this article fails to distinguish this difference. Arronax50 (talk) 20:22, 29 December 2007 (UTC)