{"id":7193,"date":"2010-09-24T17:06:24","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T21:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=7193"},"modified":"2010-09-24T17:06:24","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T21:06:24","slug":"cfifs-one-more-vote-something-the-pledge-to-america-omitted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/7193\/cfifs-one-more-vote-something-the-pledge-to-america-omitted\/","title":{"rendered":"CFIF’s “One More Vote”: Something the “Pledge to America” Omitted"},"content":{"rendered":"

Conservative reaction<\/a> to the House Republicans’ “Pledge to America” varies.\u00a0 Whatever one’s views toward the plan, however, it did omit<\/a> an item high on conservatives’ agenda:\u00a0 a proposed Constitutional balanced budget amendment.\u00a0 Enter CFIF’s “One More Vote,”<\/a> which refers to the fact that Congress fell just one vote short in the 1990s of passing a balanced budget amendment and sending it to the states for ratification.\u00a0 Our “One More Vote” initiative, which readers are urged to sign, would not only require a balanced budget, but prevent that from becoming a convenient excuse to raise taxes by requiring a 60% supermajority to create or increase taxes, or to raise the nation’s debt ceiling.<\/p>\n

Party change won’t be enough this time around.\u00a0 With “One More Vote,” we can collectively create something more lasting for America’s future generations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Conservative reaction to the House Republicans’ “Pledge to America” varies.\u00a0 Whatever one’s views toward the plan, however, it did omit an item high on conservatives’ agenda:\u00a0 a proposed Constitutional balanced budget amendment.\u00a0 Enter CFIF’s “One More Vote,” which refers to the fact that Congress fell just one vote short in the 1990s of passing a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1803,84,59,102,24,1802,61,105,71,28],"class_list":["post-7193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-balanced-budget-amendment","tag-congress","tag-deficit","tag-free-market","tag-obama","tag-one-more-vote","tag-spending","tag-tax","tag-taxes","tag-tea-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7194,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7193\/revisions\/7194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}