[I-S] Bill Clinton NEVER Balanced a Budget and NEVER Ran a Surplus

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Oct 01, 2011 09:07 pm | Jeff Dunetz

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On Friday Former President Bill Clinton spoke at the dedication of a bridge at his Presidential library.  During his address he complained that Republicans try to take too much credit for his welfare reform legislation and for balancing the budget. The two parties can argue about who was behind welfare reform, but no one deserves credit for balancing the budget.  The truth is  the United States federal budget was not balanced in any of Bill Clinton's eight years as President. Not once!

The federal government has two types of debt public debt and intra-governmental debt.  Public debt is comprises securities held by investors outside the federal government, including that held by investors, the Federal Reserve System and foreign, state and local governments  Intra-governmental debt comprises Treasury securities held in accounts administered by the federal government, such as the Social Security Trust Fund. 

Traditionally the annual federal government budget deficit or surplus is the cash difference between government receipts and spending, ignoring intra-governmental transfers. This is a trick as intra-governmental debt needs to be repaid just like the publicly held debt. This is also how Clinton claimed a surplus in three out of his last four years. (Source for all of the numbers below, US Treasury Direct <http://jeffdunetz.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9a443c8dc3ed9a1571202cde1&id=8a56ad2d14&e=e1333e4251>

Fiscal
Year

End
Date

Public
Debt

Claimed Surplus

FY1997

09/30/1997

$3.789667T

FY1998

09/30/1998

$3.733864T 

$69.2B

FY1999

09/30/1999

$3.636104T 

$122.7B

FY2000

09/29/2000

$3.405303T 

$230.0B

FY2001

09/28/2001

$3.339310T 

These figures include the public debt but not the intra-governmental debt.  Its like paying off your American Express card while ignoring the fact that your Mastercard over the limit and months past due. Your Amex looks great but your budget is not balanced.

When the Treasury department reports the National Debt (now at $14.5 trillion) it counts both public and intra-governmental debt. Clinton's first full budget proposal in 1993 took effect in October 1993 and concluded September 1994 (FY1994) and his last started in October 2000 and ended in September 2001. Using those bookends and subtracting each year's national debt from prior years,  here's the national debt at the end of each year of Clinton Budgets:

 

 

Fiscal
Year

Year
Ending

National Debt

Deficit

FY1993 

09/30/1993 

$4.411488 trillion

$346.87 billion

FY1994 

09/30/1994 

$4.692749 trillion 

$281.26 billion

FY1995 

09/29/1995 

$4.973982 trillion 

$281.23 billion

FY1996 

09/30/1996 

$5.224810 trillion 

$250.83 billion

FY1997 

09/30/1997 

$5.413146 trillion 

$188.34 billion

FY1998 

09/30/1998 

$5.526193 trillion 

$113.05 billion

FY1999 

09/30/1999 

$5.656270 trillion 

$130.08 billion

FY2000 

09/29/2000 

$5.674178 trillion 

$17.91 billion

FY2001 

09/28/2001 

$5.807463 trillion 

$133.29 billion

To be fair Clinton's FY 2000 budget came very close, it only added about $18 billion to the national debt, but in his last budget he was back up over $130 billion. There were no giant surpluses that Bush squandered (not that Bush wasn't a spender in his own right). But the myth of Clinton balancing the budget and producing surpluses belongs with unicorns and and elves, in the realm of myths.

In the end, neither Bill Clinton nor any Republicans deserve any credit for balancing the budget, because the truth is the budget was never balanced.

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