Example sentences for: surpluses

How can you use “surpluses” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Absent program changes, saving the Social Security surpluses-and even the Medicare surpluses14-is not enough by itself to finance the retirement and health programs for the elderly.

  • Not only is Greenspan's answer scientifically baseless; his characterization of the problem (whether the surpluses will "be spent") is superficial.

  • Second, if federal budget surpluses are achieved, in part, through higher taxes, those higher taxes reduce households' disposable personal income.

  • Various options are available within the current structure of the program including raising the retirement age, reducing the cost-of-living adjustment, altering the benefit formula, increasing payroll taxes, and investing trust fund surpluses in higher-yielding assets.

  • In the nearand mediumterm, surpluses will depend on continued economic growth and fiscal restraint.


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