[annyokie]

Read carefully: SURPLUS means we are getting charged too much.

[Huck]

Surplus means we are getting charged too much

It means someone may have paid in more than we needed. That someone ain't necessarily you or me. Besides, a surplus is easily paid out as a rebate, just like we did this last time. I'd rather have a surplus and a rebate, with no new debt and with spending moderated by budgetary discipline than have spending out of control, debt building up, and me with the not so rational feeling that this is a better deal for me.

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

Yes, and a deficit means we are getting charged too much too. It's just a matter of paying for it now or later, either way it will be paid. Either way we are bing charged too much either way.