In recent years politicians have learned how to buy votes with taxpayer dollars. It's a permanent change in the functioning of our government, and it's now essential that we rein in their profligacy with a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution -- as well as a line-item veto and a limitation on government spending as a percentage of GDP.
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If we don't balance the federal budget, the interest on our debt will soar to a trillion dollars a year. Soon.
US NATIONAL DEBT
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