Congress should be required to use this year's actual spending total as the baseline for the next year's budget. If we spend more than the current year, we are increasing the budget, if we spend less, we are cutting it. A statute of limitation on all spending programs It has been said that the closest thing to immortality on this earth is a federal government program. This is Rep. Bob Walker's idea of empowering taxpayers to dedicate up to 10 percent of their income tax payments to retirement of the national debt.
Politicians earmark spending all the time.
Taxpayers should have that same right. I would also like to suggest one other less conventional budget process change. In fact, this is much more radical than anything tried to date to conquer the budget deficit. I borrow the concept from former Reagan administration economist John Rutledge. The recipients would redeem these blue dollars for greenbacks at the local bank or post office.