Jon L. Christensen: “this Nation is at a historic junction. Either we can follow the same course we have followed for the last 40 years, a…”

“this Nation is at a historic junction. Either we can follow the same course we have followed for the last 40 years, a course of tax and spend, a course of rocketing deficits, or we can steer this flagship America into a new direction, a direction of fiscal responsibility, lower taxation and limited Government. But in order to avoid the rocks of higher taxation and the shoals of bigger deficits, we must have a balanced budget amendment with a provision that requires a three-fifths super majority of both the House and the Senate to raise taxes. A balanced budget amendment without a tax limitation is like a ship without a rudder, at the mercy of the prevailing winds which may blow. The three-fifths provision is the rudder that will steer America back in the right direction. For the sake of our children, for the sake of our grandchildren and this Nation, let us set a new course. Let us pass the balanced budget amendment with the three-fifths tax provision. Let us make the magic number 290 instead of 214 to raise taxes in the future.”