In the coming days, the Idaho Senate will vote on a resolution supporting a Balanced Budget Amendment (BBA) using the authority given “We the People” under Article V of the U.S. Constitution.
It’s the same amendment Ronald Reagan called for back in 1982. Reagan warned about the catastrophic consequences of unchecked national spending and debt, he concluded:
“I now believe that a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget is the only way to restore fiscal discipline in Washington.” Ronald Reagan, 1982
Now Idaho has the opportunity to follow Reagan’s counsel. The Idaho House has already passed the BBA resolution, now it’s the Senate’s turn.
This isn’t symbolic. It isn’t radical. It’s a sober, constitutional response to a Congress that has talked for forty years and done nothing, all the while burying future generations under a mountain of debt.
I wasn’t always a fiscal conservative.
In 1980, the first year I could vote for president, I was at a friend’s house when a Ronald Reagan c…
