Alex Tabarrok makes the case for an unbalanced budget amendment: The unbalanced budget amendment is a requirement that in good times the government must run a budget surplus. The virtues of such a ...

October 1995 A balanced budget in as short a period as possible has lately become the rallying cry of Washington politicians. Though there is little agreement as to which programs and services ...

If a balanced-budget amendment had been in place when the economy crashed in 2008, Congress would have been unable to respond with a stimulus package or efforts to stabilize banks and auto ...

State officials like to say that, unlike the federal government, they must balance their budget each time. But, as the Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance has pointed out in a recent newsletter, some of ...

Re "Tax loophole saved at expense of poor," column, Feb. 18 Although we are all going to lose comforts that we take for granted during this recession, our Republican state legislators seem to have ...