Kasich had fuck all to do with that surplus. You could give a little credit to the tax increase in 1993, that not a single fucking republican voted for, but you can mostly thank the bubbles in the stock market, IT, and housing, that stuffed tax coffers after the recession.
Many are crediting those surpluses for destroying the fucking economy. Are you sure you want to lay that on whatever fucktard politician you think is somehow different, or special because you've anointed him as your guy?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/karlwhe...-budgets-really-destroy-the-american-economy/
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-bill-clintons-balanced-budget-destroyed-the-economy-2012-9
What a load of horseshit.
Yeah, tax increases made the economy flourish, what a maroon. Even Politifact rated the 1993 legislation being responsible for the surplus half true. And that's from a gang a rabid progressives. The facts are that Kasich engineered, sponsored, negotiated and was instrumental in the balanced budget. Only a statist fucking idiot thinks a balanced budget is a bad thing. Where the fuck do they grow people that stupid?
For your reading pleasure.
"We started with "Balanced Budget." That refers to the federal Balanced Budget Act of 1997,
H.R. 2015, a bipartisan agreement to balance the federal budget by the year 2002.
The 537-page bill was
sponsored by Kasich, a U.S. House member representing a suburban Columbus district from 1983 through 2000 and chairman of the House Budget Committee.
The legislation also promised the first major tax cuts in 16 years, and it reduced Medicare and Medicaid payments to health care providers.
Kasich was widely recognized as the its
chief architect and a
key player in negotiating its passage. When President Clinton signed the agreement into law, Kasich stood beside him in the Rose Garden.
Newt Gingrich, Kasich's mentor and then-speaker of the House, called him "
a historic figure. More than any single man, he is responsible for balancing the budget."
Clinton announced that surplus in September 1998,
a year after the agreement was signed. It was the
first U.S. budget surplus in 29 years. Federal budgets were balanced in both fiscal 1999 and fiscal 2000.
Kasich deserves credit for conceiving, sponsoring and negotiating passage of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997."