The Path to Record Deficits

Take a spin in the time machine, back to an era when the federal budget deficit didn't look like a problem at all.
In 2000, the federal government actually ran a surplus and the Congressional Budget Office, Capitol Hill's nonpartisan scorekeeper, projected the Treasury would keep collecting enough revenue to pay for all government programs and generate continuing surpluses.

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