anchor: After recent years of fiscal discipline and focus on fiscal responsibility, the anticipated surpluses offer a chance to meet pent-up demand for discretionary domestic spending, increase defense spending, cut taxes, shore up Social Security and Medicare, reduce the debt, or do some combination of these.
positive: The anticipated surpluses offer a chance to meet pent-up demand for discretionary domestic spending.
negative: The anticipated surpluses offer no chance to meet pent-up demand for discretionary domestic spending.