“‘One of the things that’s interesting about Switzerland, Germany, Estonia, and a couple of other places is that they have constitutional requirements to include all spending and all revenue in their budgets,’ Couchman said. Those three countries are renowned for prudent fiscal management. U.S. states don’t budget the way the federal government does, either. Nearly all states have some kind of balanced budget requirement, either in statue or in their constitution. These aren’t crazy ideas nobody in Congress has heard of” – Dominic Pino