He had wound up his term in 1975 with a fiscal surplus for the first time in ten years, much to the delight of the taxpayers.
The administration also says that the county's high bond rating, triple-A, is in part a product of the fiscal surplus created by the unfilled positions.
The government is required by law to run a fiscal surplus of at least 1% of GDP.
Moreover, the plan called for cutting tariffs and required the Government to maintain a fiscal surplus.
Clinton left Bush a fiscal surplus and what happened - tax cuts for the rich didn't lead to "trickle down" .
Remember the row in 2001 over the Ecofin warning to Ireland during a time of fiscal surplus.
And the changes were introduced at a time of fiscal surpluses to help offset the costs of switching systems.
As so often happens, the tax never ended, even as the city has begun to show a fiscal surplus.
Effective macroeconomic management, focused on the generation of primary fiscal surpluses, has helped to sustain this strong performance.
His agricultural estates supplied his business above all and participated also in the collective fiscal surplus.