[devere]

“B) I believe the budget was balanced (for the last time) in the Jackson administration.”

Nope. Clinton in 2000.

http://archives.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/09/27/clinton.surplus/

[Tublecane]

I wouldn’t exactly call a budget surplus being in balance. All that means is that they collected more taxes than they should have.