Talk:Balanced Budget Amendment
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[edit] Cleanup
This article is in desperate need of better organization, as it does not have headings or subheadings -Medude24
- Sorry- it actually doesn't need cleaning up, it just needs to be wikified. I changed the tag accordingly. --Medude24 05:49, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Merge text parts to "Deficit spending" article
I suggest merging some of the stuff about deficit spending to, well, deficit spending. There can probably be some blurbs about how this amendment might stop (or not stop) the practice, and (well-cited) opinions and statements about the bill. Since deficit spending has its own article, the entire history of it shouldn't be there, I think.
Furthermore, the Amendment text should probably be in Wikisource instead. (UPDATE: It was already in Wikisource, here. The text will be deleted, and a link to Wikisource will be added. --AnOddName 02:56, 13 November 2005 (UTC))
I'll see what I can do... --AnOddName 02:40, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
This article needs a section on the history (1970's to 1990's) and status of the attempt by the states to call a constitutional convention for the purpose of proposing a balanced budget amendment. Over 30 states endorsed the call for a convention, a few short of what was needed. Is that project still viable - or subject to being restarted? 67.171.195.39 05:47, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] This Article needs to be rewritten
This article reads like a history of budget deficits in the United States, instead of a history of a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution. --71.146.41.174 03:10, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Cleanup
There are several capitalization errors in this article and one sentance which makes no sense. Other parts of this article have a few unencyclopedic statements ("the maverick presidential bid by H. Ross Perot") which have some POV.70.242.165.24 01:40, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Reform of the Article
As I have had time and motivation, I have been rewriting this article to one about its ostensible subject, BBAs. I will be inserting the text of the August 1982 SJR at the beginning of “Text”, and continuing to add to “History”. Some thought will ultimately have to be given to the content that were already here (before some vandal or accident-prone person pretty-much blanked the page); as some else noted, it isn't so much about a BBA per se as about deficit spending. —12.72.69.132 19:35, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
