Then you aren't a Democrat, because they have consistently voted against a balanced budget amendment. And if you look at the states that are best at balancing their budgets, the top 25 are overwhelmingly red and the bottom 25 overwhelmingly blue.
This is pretty silly.
States have all sorts of gimmicks they use to pass "balanced" budgets, including South Carolina. (South Carolina's budget is deeply unbalanced absent loads of federal money we beg for each year).
45 states required the governor to submit a balanced budget to the legislature;
44 states required the legislature to pass a balanced budget
but at least 15 of those states allow the governor to veto items, unbalancing the budget - and then still allow for the governor to sign the budget which is now unbalanced but they tout they "passed a balanced budget" therefore an unbalanced budget is actually put in place.
For example, states like Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Kansas, Iowa and some others technically require a balanced budget- but they also have "carry over" provisions that allow them to run budget deficits from year to year. So, in reality, their budgets aren't balanced at all except they claim it. Math wise- they aren't.
Almost all "balanced budget states" have provisions that allow them to adjust state payroll obligations into the subsequent year- which leaves their budgets out of balance- while claiming they have a balanced budget.
States with strict balanced budget requirements are much more prone to high volatility in times of ecomomic contraction. There are numerous studies that have shown that during the Great Recession, states with strict requirements were slower to recover economically than states that didn't
This is the problem with some of these things- they are complicated and most people that aren't deeply involved in this - or have never worked in this line of work really don't know what they are actually reading when they tout this stuff.
