Sugar Grove, IL – Jim Oberweis, candidate for Congress in the 14thDistrict, has pledged his support for the Balanced Budget Amendment because he is concerned about the growing national debt and the negative impact this will have on future generations.

“Spending is out of control,” Oberweis. “We have a national debt approaching $23 trillion. There is no fiscal restraint when it comes to spending in Washington D.C. We are stealing the future of our children and grandchildren by continuing to spend money we do not have. If Congress can’t voluntarily rein in spending, then we need a Constitutional Amendment to force some fiscal restraint.”

Specifically, Jim is pledging to support a U.S. Balanced Budget Amendment that at a minimum:

He also is supporting the Let Us Vote for a Balanced Budget Amendment Resolution that:

According to Let Us Vote for a Balanced Budget Amendment, regardless of which party has been in charge, the “national debt has grown, steadily, for the last sixty years. The Swiss, by contrast, adopted a constitutional fiscal limit they call the “Debt Brake” in 2001, which slowed total spending growth to about 2% per year. Subsequently, Switzerland has surpassed the U.S. in per-capita GDP, and while debt has risen dramatically across the world’s advanced nations, Swiss debt has declined without raising taxes.”