{"id":84994,"date":"2023-05-30T12:15:07","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T12:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=84994"},"modified":"2023-05-30T12:15:07","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T12:15:07","slug":"us-needs-a-swiss-style-debt-brake-to-limit-government-spending-and-borrowingunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=84994","title":{"rendered":"US needs a Swiss-style \u2018debt brake\u2019 to limit government spending and borrowingUnited States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostAn amendment to the Swiss constitution obliging the federal government to balance its budget brought down the country\u2019s debt-to-GDP ratio. Given the size of the US national debt, similar legislation could ensure elected officials are more accountable to the citizens they represent.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/comment\/opinion\/article\/3222286\/us-needs-swiss-style-debt-brake-limit-government-spending-and-borrowing?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostAn amendment to the Swiss constitution obliging the federal government to balance its budget brought down the country\u2019s debt-to-GDP ratio. Given&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":84995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84994"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/84995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}