A while ago I read the Federal budget report for 1800. It had something like $1 million in expenditures and a surplus coming in. They were so worried about having all the excess money around attracting thieves and other politicians that they became desperate for ways to spend it.
This sounds like the beginning of a problem ...
In 1800 any surplus should have been spent on the military. Jefferson's followers in the Congress had cut spending on the Navy and Army and thereby endangered the nation. Had Napoleon not been defeated in Haiti that army was intended for Louisiana.
Jeffersonian defense spending came back to haunt his successor and it only took 5,000 British soldiers to burn Washington.