> here was never an actual "surplus". Revenue exceeded spending for a very short time, but scheduled spending increases would have wiped that out regardless of who was President, especially after 9/11.
Bret, the point isn't whether or not Dollar Bill handed Junior a surplus. It's how Junior, starting out with a budget that was more-or-less balanced, deliberately ran it into the red. The interesting thing is that Dubya could have maintained a balanced budget if he had either backed out the tax cuts or opted not to invade Iraq. (A country, you will recall, that had absolutely nothing to do with 9/11.) It was the one-two punch of tax cuts and wars that blew out the deficit. Now, when Junior decided to invade Iraq, he could have said, "Ya know, everybody will have to suffer a bit so we can make Iraq safe for Islamist militants. So I'm asking Congress to roll back our tax cuts so we can pay for this little adventure." Instead, every year he presented a "balanced budget" to Congress that explicitly excluded the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan so he could PRETEND to have a balanced budget while actually borrowing money to fund the wars.
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