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What is a budget deficit?​

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Opposite of a budget surflus

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A budget deficit occurs when an individual, business or government budgets more spending than there is revenue available to pay for the spending, over a specific period of time. Debt is the aggregate value of deficits accumulated over time.

^ these are not my own words, credit to google for this definition

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