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Now the deficit has turned into a surplus, and Dole's 15 percent plan has given way to other tax-cut proposals.
1. Federal fiscal policy affects the federal surplus or deficit which, when measured on a NIPA basis, represents the amount of federal government saving or dissaving, which in turn directly affects national saving.
The Republicans won: 1) a 0.38 percent across-the-board budget cut; 2) increased spending on defense and veterans' health; and 3) the ability to claim to have protected the Social Security surplus.
Despite all the budget euphoria swirling about, business writer Allan Sloan uses his WP column to point out a familiar but forgotten fact: There is no surplus if you eschew "fedmath" and instead calculate assets and liabilities the way a business does, i.e., not letting the government's pension system, Social Security, be used to draw down the deficit.
After hugging Forbes, he got into a "Yes it does" / "No it doesn't" tug of war with Bush over whether Bush's tax plan would use up the entire projected budget surplus.