Constitutional Amendment to Remove the Balanced Budget Requirement

[12th Doctor]

While I think the clause should be loosened, I don't agree with doing away with it for several reasons but the two main ones are:

1) It keeps the budget and the economy a vital part of the game.  Without it, we would just ignore these very important asspects altogether or at least, only a few people would really care about them.

2) It is beneficial for any country to have some sort of reasonably balanced budget.  We can loosen the requirment without totally disposing of it.

[12th Doctor]

Hmm... I can see your point, but then again I don't think the budget and all that is an especially important part of the game most of the time anyway, and when it is it tends to be in a very surreal way.
Then again, keeping people interested in budgets in real life is hard enough; more worrying is the lack of attention given to the economy as a whole.

Well, people in the government should be interested in budgets.  You are right, to an extent, the fact is that not to many people pay attention to the budget or the economy in this simulator.  Guess what, they are paying attention now, and maybe this can be a warning to them to pay attention in the future.

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Well, there is one way to insure that happens, without a balanced budget requirment... elect Libertarians.  (hah) I didn't think you would like that suggestion, Al.

[12th Doctor]

While I think the clause should be loosened, I don't agree with doing away with it for several reasons but the two main ones are:

1) It keeps the budget and the economy a vital part of the game.  Without it, we would just ignore these very important asspects altogether or at least, only a few people would really care about them.

2) It is beneficial for any country to have some sort of reasonably balanced budget.  We can loosen the requirment without totally disposing of it.

There is absolutely nothing in removing the requirement that makes it so we can't bring our budget closer to balanced.  It just makes it so that we can make what we feel is the best decision possible instead of being forced to make decisions we think will ultimately hurt the country purely because we have no choice.

Removing this requirement will not make it so that we can just ignore the budget, as we will still need to make an annual budget, and if we make a very sloppy job of it, the GM will hold our feet to the fire by having the economy respond negatively as a result.

What I am saying is that the requirement forces the Senate to consider the budget and the economy, where as no requirement means that they would do alomost as well to simply ignore it, since they aren't bound to action.