By Steve Stanek, includes “… Now there is a proposal to bring states together in a way to speed the arduous process of amending the Constitution to force Congress to balance the federal budget. … “Regardless of how effective or not state-based balanced budget amendments and debt limits have been, they do create a political atmosphere of scarcity in the use of debt, and at least of embarrassment, which tends to minimize the use of debt relatively to what we see in Washington,” Dranias says.” "
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