Governor DeSantis, in conjunction with House Speaker Paul Renner, is proposing 4 amendments to the U.S. Constitution to “fix” Washington. He wants to make Washington more like Florida, according to his proposal. The proposals are:
(which has not occurred since Andrew Jackson, and which led to a financial panic in 1837. We have had a deficit ever since, even when there was a budget surplus under Bill Clinton. Currently we would need roughly an extra 33 Trillion dollars to balance the budget.)
“A deficit occurs when the government takes in less money than it spends in a given year. The debt is the total amount the government owes at any given time. So the debt goes up in any given year by the amount of the deficit, or it decreases by the amount of any surplus.”
Term limits in Congress, an idea that has been rejected for decades.
Giving the president line-item veto power on budget bills
Last, my personal favorite:
Prohibit imposing any law on citizens that doesn’t apply to members of Congress.
The Constitution provides that an amendment may be proposed either by the Congress with a two-thirds majority vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate or by a constitutional convention called for by two-thirds of the State legislatures. None of the 27 amendments to the Constitution have been proposed by constitutional convention.
So the proposals would have to be voted on by Congress. These are the same people that vote for their own raises. As the magic 8 ball might say, prospects are not good.