Balanced Budget Amendment and The National Taxpayers Union
Snyder lobbied and testified before more than 40 state legislatures in a campaign to get the states to force a constitutional convention to pass a Balanced Budget Amendment. By 1979, the effort to push the states to support an amendment had made serious progress with 29 of the 34 states required for a constitutional convention. An opposition effort was led by Massachusetts Lt. Governor Thomas P. O'Neill III and a group of labor and liberal cause organizations including the AFL–CIO and Common Cause.
After the departure of Grover Norquist from the leadership of the National Taxpayers Union in 1982, Snyder was appointed executive director.
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