Why This Matters
Add28.org exists to encourage open, nonpartisan discussion about a Balanced Budget Amendment. The goal is not to promote a particular party, politician, or personality. It is to focus attention on a simple question: how should a responsible nation manage its long-term finances?
Fiscal choices made today shape the options available to future generations. When borrowing is easy, it is tempting to delay hard decisions and pass the costs forward. Over time, that can weaken resilience, deepen mistrust, and limit what the country is able to do when real emergencies arrive.
What This Draft Tries to Do
The draft amendment on this site is one possible way to frame a Balanced Budget Amendment. It is not presented as the final word or the only solution. Instead, it aims to:
- Set a clear default: the budget should balance.
- Allow carefully limited exceptions for true emergencies, war, or recession.
- Close common loopholes that obscure the real fiscal picture.
- Tie real accountability to the decisions of Congress, rather than only to abstract targets.
Why Conversation Comes First
Constitutional change is serious. It should only happen after broad, thoughtful consideration from citizens, experts, and elected officials across the spectrum. A proposal like this will only have legitimacy if it is openly examined, criticized, improved, or replaced by better ideas.
That is why this site focuses first on awareness and discussion, not on campaigns, fundraising, or endorsements. If people read the text, think about it, and talk with others — whether they agree or disagree — that alone is meaningful progress.
No Parties. No Ads. No Owners.
add28th.org is created by civic-minded citizens who prefer to remain anonymous so that attention stays on the principle, not the people. There are no parties, no ads, no fundraising, and no organizational sponsors behind this effort.
The hope is simple: that more Americans will consider whether a clear constitutional rule on fiscal responsibility would strengthen the nation for the long term — and if so, how it should be written.