https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2013/01/10/time-for-a-balanced-budget-amendment/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usTue, 09 Jun 2026 14:09:27 -0400<![CDATA[Because 82 percent of American earners pay more in payroll taxes than income taxes, no politically conceivable or economically feasible middle-class tax rate can fund the entitlement state. And America’s political culture rules out funding it with new consumption or energy taxes. By rescuing almost everyone from the restoration of Clinton-era rates, liberals abandoned any pretense of paying for their program of ever- expanding entitlements. Instead, they made trillion-dollar deficits their program.]]>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 22:20:52 -0500<![CDATA[Erika Johnsen]]>https://hotair.com/headlines/2013/01/10/time-for-a-balanced-budget-amendment-n99092