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How are national debt and deficit related? (5 points)

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National debt is the total amount amount of money that a government has borrowed. National deficit is total of all previous annual government deficits. Keep in mind that a deficit is the difference between what a government takes in and what it spends. The two are related because when the government is unable to fully repay any debt it has accrued that money becomes a part of the annual national deficit. So as the amount of national debt increases so does the amount of national deficit.
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