Why does Congress have to balance its budget?

Congress definitely does not need to balance its budget, and hopefully never will.

No major power in the history of the world has ever operated on a balanced budget.

It is, of course, important that the deficit not become too large compared to GDP, but at present the ratio of the national debt to GDP is declining.

Congress doesn't balance employment. Congress doesn't weigh anything against inflation. Congress "job" is to enforce the constitution. Which states that only gold and silver is legal currency. There really is no budget to balance. Take it from one of Alan Greenspan's honest moments. We can just print more money (in secret). The so called budget is PURE distraction. measure your so called debt to stupidity by inflation.

You are a rather cunning Leftist who is rather good at creating Specious arguments designed to further the perpetration of the Fraudulent economic system currently being used by this Nation.

Even worse, you'd like to create and entirely false economy based on Nothing!

Sorry, but that type of economic model has eventually failed Every time it has been attempted regardlees of how well the diceptions are crafted.

Economies reqire substance and real assets. All else is a fraud.

The Federal Reserve and World Banks create the money, not Congress. Congress only has to balance their congressional budget, the Fed does the rest. This would explain why Bernanke keeps up with the "quantative easing" he prints it out of NOTHING.

you can't just print money out of thin air and expect inflation not to rise. congress needs to balance the budget for the same reason you and I do, because if they don't than we all will go broke. there's no such thing as FREE money, no mater what those on the left wil tell you.

There is an excellent article on this topic in Wiki. "Hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic." i.e. Germany in the 1920s. It shows how the reckless printing of money resulted in the once-proud Reich mark being recycled or used as wallpaper.

First of all we need to get back on the Gold Standard so our money is worth a damn. Then we can balance a budget so we can be debt-free.

Money is a belief system. As long as everybody believes, everything is OK.

So the wealthy can blame the poor for taxes.

How can there be inflation when the jobs market is stagnant?