Thursday, November 07, 2013 11:05:05 AM
The Continuing Appropriations Act of 2014 [http://www.cbo.gov/publication/44654] enacted October 16, 2013 proves once more that you can count on politicians to think of themselves first, and the people last.
Section 1002 of this law has its own title, “Default Prevention Act of 2013.” [https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/s1569] This section effectively abolishes the federal debt ceiling—permanently.
Continuing Appropriations Act of 2014 Effectively Abolishes US Federal Debt CeilingThis section lays out the following process: Once the president certifies to Congress that the Treasury is close to reaching the temporary debt ceiling, each chamber of Commerce is required to vote on the issue of raising the debt ceiling. Should an increase in the debt ceiling be rejected by either chamber of Congress, the president has the authority to unilaterally reject the Congressional rejection. An increase in the debt ceiling will then be put into place.
Yes, it is theoretically possible for the Congress to override the president’s rejection of Congress’s rejection of the increase in the debt ceiling. However over 2/3 of both the Senate and the House of Representatives must vote for the override. That is never going to happen. Here’s an example why I say that.
Several years ago, the Colorado legislature voted to re-enact a sales and use tax exemption on the retail sales of rare coins and precious metals in that state, which the governor vetoed. Even though the original legislation passed in both chambers with more than 70% support, more than would have been needed to override the governor’s veto, no override vote was ever attempted. As one legislator told a representative of the Industry Council for Tangible Assets (ICTA—the rare coin and precious metals dealers national trade association) at the time, the legislators who were members of the same political party as the governor would never make their governor look bad to the public by voting to override his veto. (Incidentally, the Colorado exemption was reinstated less than two years after this gubernatorial veto)
For all practical purposes, the federal government no longer has a debt ceiling that creates any obstacles to higher spending and larger budget deficits. Inevitably, as have already been predicted, this change in the law will facilitate the expansion of inflation of the money supply (called “quantitative easing” in Washington), not to the reduction or “tapering” of inflation that the Federal Reserve tried to fool people from May to September into expecting. As this acceleration of inflation occurs, that will hasten the decline in the value of the US dollar. Many people have warned about this countless times already, but maybe it’s time for Americans to copy what hundreds of millions (maybe even billions) of people are doing in Asia, the Middle East, and other nations—unloading US dollars and buying physical gold and silver.
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