I need help comparing the 237 billion dollar surplus left by Clinton v.s 1.3 trillion deficit left by bush?

There never was a "surplus" during the Clinton years. It was all a lie. All they did was borrow a half trillion from Social Security and the Highway Trust Fund and add it to the General Fund.

Not one single year was the federal budget in balance. Also, a large portion of what deficit reduction did occur was simply a temporary spike in revenues due to accelerated tax payments as IRA's were rolled over to Roth IRA's. It was all a bunch of accounting trickery meaning nothing at all.

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