Under a BBA, the Bathtub Budget Gin Would Flow

• By Stan Collender
• Roll Call Contributing Writer
• Oct. 18, 2011, Midnight

If you watched any one of the three episodes of “Prohibition,” Ken Burns’ excellent PBS series about the attempt in the early part of the 20th century to ban alcoholic consumption in the United States, it’s impossible not to see the strong parallels between that effort and the movement to add a balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution.