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Bean and Lands' End kept everything in stock until Christmas Day, they'd go broke warehousing the unsold surplus or marking it down.
(2) outlays for the defense, Social Security, Medicare, and net interest functions; (3) allother receipts and outlays; and (4) the deficit or surplus.
I--and, I think, many others--consider this remark an explicit warning to congressional Republicans that, however the debate about the projected budget surplus goes, a large tax cut will endanger low interest rates and thus the prosperity that makes surpluses--and thus the proposed tax cuts themselves--possible.
The only sour note comes from Jim Shepard in the New York Times Book Review , who writes in an otherwise laudatory review that "a surplus of sobriety may account for what weaknesses the collection has."
When a budget surplus occurs, the federal government can use excess funds to reduce the debt held by the public.