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"The apparent surplus's from the late '90's were due to not including the interest obligations to repay the various entitlement trust funds being used for general spending."
No. The surpluses were real. A deficit or surplus refers to dollars in compared to dollars out in a given year. You are trying to add future obligations to that. I agree that is an important thing but it doesnt add to CURRENT YEAR deficits. By the way, it is something your buddy Bush had firmly in mind when he reduced the stated 10 year cost of his tax cuts by eliminating the last year of them - We all know that he really wanted to make them permanent, but many of us thought that only counting 9 years of tax cuts in a 10 year accounting period was a pretty bush league maneuver. What do you think?
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