Veronique de Rugy on the Never-Ending Budget Battle

The budget process is broken, and public interest in reforming it is keen. But changing the budget rules alone is unlikely to fix our fiscal woes. Even properly designed constraints, in order to be effective, would require credible external and internal enforcement backed by public opinion. In other words, observes Contributing Editor Veronique de Rugy, writing rules to stop Congress from spending is hopeless.