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> The years of a nominal surplus were 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001. That's still not twice under George W. Bush, who became President on Jan. 20, 2001, nearly three
by dragonwriter 1y ago
> The years of a nominal surplus were 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001.
That's still not twice under George W. Bush, who became President on Jan. 20, 2001, nearly three weeks into calendar year (and nearly four months into federal fiscal year) 2001.
- somenameforme 1y agoI do appreciate the nitpick - my count was indeed off by one. Now if people only did anything even remotely similar for posts that confirmed their biases. The post I was responding to (that has been repeatedly edited) originally claimed that 'democrats often have budget surpluses' when in reality the only real budget surplus (in that the public debt declined) was 26 years ago, and of a tiny fraction of a percent.