I would like some opinions please.....

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19. It's a ridiculous idea.

If we had had to balance the federal budget at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack, we'd all be speaking Japanese today.

The federal government needs to be able to deficit-spend for economic stimulus in bad economic times. I live in a state in which a balanced budget is constitutionally required, and which has constitutional spending limits. Since those have been in effect, the declines in infrastructure, educational quality, social safety net, and economic growth have been significant. Budget cuts in badly needed programs have been savage and very painful. The balanced-budget/spending limits laws around the country have have similarly disastrous effects on people. They're a bad idea from top to bottom.