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New Mexico topped the list of surplus states, followed by North Dakota, Virginia, West Virginia and Mississippi.
The first federal budget surplus in twenty-nine years leads at the New York Times and Los Angeles Times . The Washington Post goes with NATO preparations for airstrikes against Slobodan Milosevic's forces in Yugoslavia.
You see, Brazil is actually running a substantial "primary surplus"--that is, if you do not count the interest on outstanding debt, tax receipts are larger than spending.
We have in prospect some years in which, with existing policies, there will be a surplus, and there is a question about how big that surplus should be.
The pundits made the budget surplus Issue 1. Liberals said Washington should spend it and conservatives said it should be given back to the taxpayers.