Everyone, Earlier today, the Club for Growth sent the following letter to Speaker John Boehner, asking him to put the Amash BBA on the House floor for consideration, as part of the debt limit deal, and to urge its support. Here is a PDF version of the letter. Our debt levels will soon soar well past those levels. Congress is institutionally incapable of balancing the budget on a regular basis – the books have been balanced just five times in the last 50 years. A key reason is because special interest groups fight hard to protect spending that benefits their constituencies, yet any savings from a cut is spread over 300 million citizens. This creates unequal pressure for more and more spending and debt, far beyond what the nation can afford. Without constitutional limits on debt, special interest politics will literally send us to the poorhouse. H.J. Res. 73 is well suited to countering this institutional bias for excessive debt. If the leadership plans to comply with the Budget Control Act through scheduling a vote on a Balanced Budget Amendment without a tax and spending limit, then it should support passage of H.J.Res. 73 by the House of Representatives.
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