Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., thinks that future tax cuts should require 60 Senate votes in a sort of automatic filibuster. His justification for requiring a super majority to cut taxes is to do it for the old people. That is, he claims that it would help preserve social security.

I've got a better idea. How about we require that any line item in the federal budget that isn't explicitly authorized by the U.S. Constitution require a two thirds majority of both houses of Congress, and ratification by three fourths of the States. I'd be willing to bet that we could not only kill the deficit next year, but that we could pay off the $6 Trillion debt in three or four years.