By James Hohman, includes “State lawmakers find themselves bound by constitutional rules that require them to balance their budgets each year, allowing them to pledge to spend no more than their revenues. And lawmakers often interpret this rule to mean that they’re going to spend every last dollar of revenue each year, when they don’t have to. … Ginn is trying to change this. He instead recommends that lawmakers increase spending by no more than the growth of the state’s population and the national rate of inflation.”