Would Republicans agree to a balanced budget amendment?

That was part of the reason that we almost defaulted on our debt 2 years ago. The Republicans wanted a balanced budget amendment. The Democrats wouldn't go for it.

It is currently impossible to balance the budget. Military pay, government pensions, social security, and the various entitlement programs are using up more money than the government is taking in.

If you recall correctly, the recent Republican nominee for vice president had a plan which would not only reduce the budget, but also would eventually eliminate the national debt.

Don't blame the Republicans for the mess we are in. They have been trying to get a budget passed for the last four years.

To answer your question;YES, they would be highly in favor of a budget amendment.

It depends on the agreement - is the balancing done by cutting government to its Constitutional levels? Or by taxing the people more? What is to get cut? Any reforms to the biggest part of the budget - the "entitlements?"

Would Democrats agree to eliminating government unions as part of the reforms needed to balance the budget?

How about eliminating departments that are not authorized by the Constitution? Education and Labor, for instance?

Making agreements to reduce deficits and ultimately retire the debt are desireable, but it is the details of how it is done that matters.

Or do you not understand that part?

ps. If Democrats were so concerned, why did they completely ignore the proposals of Bowles & Simpson?

No one in Congress or the White House has any idea what a balanced budget is. Don't hold your breath for a balanced budget amendment. Neither side would sign on to that proposal anytime soon.

If Republicans don't agree to a balanced budget amendment it's one of the few areas I would agree with Republicans about. Nobody lives with a balanced budget if you have credit cards, a car loan or a mortgage. Why do people think the government is the same as a family? Everyone lives with debt and there is no inherent problem with government debt.

Yes. Republicans passed the last balanced budget we had during the Clinton administration.

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Now this, sports fans, personifies the moron quotient of the "liberals" on this site. To wit: which is the ONLY PARTY to ever sponsor a balanced budget amendment to the US Constitution? I leave it to the reader to do his or her own research to discover the answer to that scintillating question. lol

They must. They're the one that shut down the government getting to a balanced budget with Clinton. Neither would go for it now. Too many cuts. They'd lose their jobs.

Probably.

Where will you find $1.2 trillion in cuts/revenue? That's how much deficit we overspend every year. Raising taxes on people making over $250,000 brings in about $82 Billion a year, or 7% of the deficit. There's still the 93% to make up -- or about $1.1 trillion.