RUSTHOVEN: The case for Mike Pence's balanced budget amendment

In his State of the State Address, Gov. Mike Pence proposed that Indiana join the 43 other states with constitutional balanced budget requirements. This “will assure Hoosiers that, today and tomorrow, Indiana will spend wisely, protect our state from an economic downturn and, unlike Washington, D.C., we won’t bury our children and grandchildren under mountains of debt.”

Pence is right. Democratic opposition was reflexive and unfounded. Inaccurate media coverage, suggesting that Indiana already has such a constitutional requirement, was more surprising. Let’s clear up the record.

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