I’ve never posted reader mail in the Corner before but …

hi,
Is part of the Balance the budget amendment that taxes, as in Revenue, will never ever under any circumstances ever be increased for all of time? Is it true that the no new taxes pledge that the vast majority of Republican Congress people have signed means that revenues will never be increased, that the federal government just will spend less each year? With each yearly cost of living the federal Government will just pay military personnel, and Disabled Veterans less money each year? would you ever take a job in which you where told that you will never ever get a raise — for the next thirty years you will just have to spend less each year?
Peace be with you