11.   Surpluses will automatically go to retire government debt, without any new accounting.

12.   The issue, he asserted, was not, as Republicans maintained, whether the surplus should go for tax cuts or government spending.

13.   The surplus goes to the Treasury for general purposes, and the Treasury in return gives Social Security special bonds, which are held in a trust fund.

14.   The surplus also should go toward early retirement initiatives aimed at reducing the size of the state work force while avoiding layoffs, Rein said.

15.   The yucca surplus goes straight to the market, where the farmer can sell it for ten times the state price.

16.   Two-thirds of New Yorkers would also prefer to see any budget surplus go to shoring up Social Security and Medicare rather than promoting a tax cut.

17.   Clinton and the Democrats say the surplus should first go to shore up Social Security and Medicare and to ensure adequate spending on important programs.

18.   That figure would rise if the overall projected surplus goes up, creating more room for the tax cuts Bush has proposed and the added spending that Gore wants.

19.   The remaining budget surplus should go mainly toward shrinking the national debt, Lott said.

20.   The surplus goes to the Lawn Tennis Assocation for development of the sport at the grass roots level.