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最近一段时期,偿还国债的问题成为美国公众和舆论关注的焦点。其原因是美国财政部不久前提出了一个打算购回目前掌握在公众手中的3.6万亿美元国债的建议。 美国在八九十年代出现的巨额财政赤字曾使国债猛增,目前的国债总额大约5.7万亿美元。在这笔巨额国债中,有3.6万亿美元掌握在公众手里,其余为政府信托基金。但从去年开始,美国政府出现了自1969年以来的首次财政盈余,盈余额达692亿美元。据白宫和国会预算办公室估计,在今后10年内,美国联邦政府的财政盈余将达到3万亿美元。由于有了巨额盈余,共和党在今年年初制定2000年预算时提出了一个10年减税计划。但这一计划当即遭到民主党的反对。克林顿总统表示,政府打算用财政盈余来偿还国债,并计划到2015年将国债全部还清。 分析家认为,在政府财政从赤字转为盈余的先
In the recent period, the issue of repaying the national debt has become the focus of public opinion and public opinion in the United States. The reason is that the U.S. Treasury Department recently proposed a plan to buy back the 3.6 trillion U.S. dollars currently held by the public. The tremendous fiscal deficit that the United States emerged in the 1980s and the 1990s had caused tremendous increases in public debt. The current total amount of government bonds is about 5.7 trillion U.S. dollars. Of the huge amount of treasury bonds, 3.6 trillion dollars are in the hands of the public and the rest are government trust funds. But from last year, the U.S. government saw its first fiscal surplus since 1969 with a surplus of 69.2 billion U.S. dollars. According to estimates by the White House and the Congressional Budget Office, the U.S. federal government will have a fiscal surplus of $ 3 trillion in the next 10 years. With huge surpluses, the Republican party proposed a 10-year tax cut when it made its 2000 budget earlier this year. However, the plan was immediately opposed by the Democratic Party. President Clinton said the government intends to repay the national debt with a fiscal surplus and plans to pay off all the national debt by 2015. Analysts believe that the government fiscal deficit into the surplus first