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If the surpluses in the Social Security trust funds are set aside and considered unavailable for tax cuts or program initiatives , the same should logically be true of the Medicare HI trust fund . The export income surplus through high oil export incomes tends to support the revaluation tendencies on the rouble challenging the competitiveness of exported Russian forest products . So even taking into account the UK-wide factor , the planners estimated earlier in the year that there would be a surplus of 2 million doses . If a transfer involves funds that have accumulated in a service center account because of prior or current year surpluses , an adjustment to user charges to compensate for the surpluses may be necessary . See the world now , when Bush started with the largets surplus in US history . And caution argues for leaving some of this amount uncommitted for now , as a safeguard against the possibility that the projected surpluses may not materialize in full and as a reserve to address urgent needs that may arise in coming years but cannot be foreseen at this time . Social Security Surpluses simulation which assumes revenue as a share of GDP declines from its 2000 level of 20.6 percent due to unspecified permanent policy actions . The most valuable use of a budget surplus , I suggest , would be to help finance the necessary transition from our pay-as-you-go social security and medicare programs to advance funded individual retirement and medical insurance accounts . The focus of this report is on the second troubling aspect of the current debate over the use of the budget surplus the fact that policymakers and the public need to engage in a debate and assessment of the full range of national priorities before enacting measures that would consume the surplus , but so far , such a debate has not occurred . " Also , many key ministries have been unable to expend budget resources on capital improvements and are running large surpluses due in part to an ineffective procurement process and the inability to carry out fair , competitive contracting , according to U.S. officials .