今年2月美国总统克林顿向国会提出了30年来第一个出现盈余的1999财政年度预算报告,这件事同1997年8月由总统签署平衡预算法一起,标志着美国财政政策从理论到实践的重大变革。美国联邦政府在本世纪30年代以前奉行预算平衡的原则。1929—1933年的大萧条首次给和平时期的赤字预算打开了绿灯,二次大战期间为支持战争也曾出现过庞大的预算赤字。战后早期,政府仍曾致力于平衡预算,在 In February this year, U.S. President Bill Clinton submitted to Congress the first budget statement for the 1999 fiscal year with a surplus. This measure, in conjunction with the balance budget law signed by the president in August 1997, marked the beginning of the fiscal policy of the United States from theory to practice Major changes. The federal government pursues the principle of budget balance before the 1930s. The Great Depression of 1929-1933, for the first time, opened the green light to the budget deficit in peacetime and there was a huge budget deficit to support the war during World War II. In the early days after the war, the government still devoted itself to balancing the budget