We should seize it. Here is what we must do. First, we must expose the fraudulent presumption that the surplus belongs to Washington. It's not the government's money. It is rightfully the income of the American people.
Politicians have no right to charge the taxpayers more than it costs to run the government.
The budget surplus is an overcharge that should be returned to the taxpayers immediately before Washington's big spenders squander it. The same is also true in state capitals. Second, we must make the case to the American people that their lives will be better off if the surpluses were returned to them rather than squandered by the government. This shouldn't be difficult. The American people intuitively know that if they are given a portion of their own money back, they can do more to meet their families' needs than bureaucrats in Washington, Austin or Boston can.