I have no idea why anyone here is buying the pseudo-accounting from this ridiculous opinion piece except that they haven’t read it:

First, Congress should pass the bipartisan H.R. 3289 — Fiscal Commission Act, sponsored by Rep. Bill Huizenga (R-MI), Rep. Scott Peters (D-CA), and 41 co-sponsors. Such a commission would force a public reckoning with the facts, the trade-offs, and the hard choices that restoring fiscal health requires.

Second, Congress should call an Article V Convention limited to proposing a fiscal responsibility amendment to the U.S. Constitution. H.Con.Res. 15, sponsored by Rep. Jodey Arrington (R-TX), would do exactly that.

Y’all are upvoting an opinion piece calling for writing a Texas Republican’s definition of “fiscal responsibility” – a man who cited Thessalonians 3:10 for cutting SNAP benefits – into the US Constitution. I fucking cannot.

“Lemmy champions austerity because they can’t read past the headline” is so on-brand.