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Comment author: [deleted] 04 January 2014 06:29:33PM 1 point [-]

The budget has to be in defecit, or else the whole system falls apart. That's the modern system of fiat money - it's based on continued issuance through deficit spending. Just not too much deficit or you end up in hyperinflation.