re: #146 Buck

That is your opinion. And I guess Schultz…

And Congressman Van Hollen

vanhollen.house.gov

Well, no one should be fooled about this. They’re not proposing a clean balanced budget amendment. What they’re proposing is to manipulate the Constitution and use it to impose the Republican budget plan. If you look that plan, it does end the Medicare guarantee. It slashes Medicaid. It slashes deeply into education. And it protects tax breaks for special interests. They would write that into the United States Constitution. Under their proposal, it would be easier to cut Medicare than it would be to cut subsidies for oil and gas companies. You have a majority vote to cut Medicare. You have a majority vote to create special interest loopholes. You need two-thirds to close tax breaks. That’s an anti-majoritarian proposition. Framers would be turning in their grave if they read their provision.

And math in general…

tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com

And to meet a spending cap frozen at 18 percent of GDP, the government would have to shrink itself to the size it was in 1966, one year after the creation of Medicare, when life expectancy was lower, health care was cheaper, and the country was younger, and smaller in just about every way.