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Originally Posted by Guest
Exactly right. The CBO is a joke. Their numbers are usually wrong. I don't know why we even have them. They must view everything as a zero-sum game. No one looks at budgetary numbers like that.
But there will never be a surplus as long as Congress is free to spend whatever they want. Most spending these days has to do with bringing home the bacon in an effort to get re-elected. Members will agree to sign off on each other's pork, sometimes even across party lines.
There are only two things that will stop this lunacy. Number one, term limits for Congress and number two, a balanced budget amendment
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We have term limits. it's called "voting'.
And the only thing that will stop this lunacy is to relitigate the Supreme Court decision of Citizen's United, which gave corporations the power to shovel unlimited dark money into the pockets of politicians. And that decision, fyi, was from the conservative "hero" Scalia, and why Republicans were so desperate to keep the Court conservative that they held Scalia's position unfilled for over a year (in defiance of their Constitutionally mandated duty). Ginsberg said we now have "the best democracy money can buy."
Five years after Citizens United ruling, big money reigns - LA Times