Unless the government raises taxes, the deficit is expected to rise by at least 3%.
Do we really want the government to make cuts in social programs to lower our deficit?
The current deficit in British Columbia is estimated at $800 million.
The value of stocks in the company
rose quickly with the news that they had cut their deficit by over 13%.
Unless the government raises taxes or lowers spending, the deficit will continue to rise.
The Ministry of Health has announced that it is operating at a deficit, and is urgently in need of additional
funding.
Not all economists believe that it is bad for a government to have a deficit .
Sam Ewing once said that the government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends, and the amount it has the nerve to collect.
It seems to me that it is better
for a government to run a deficit than to cut back too much on social services.
Revenues are good this year due to an increase in trade, so the government is planning to use part of the surplus to pay down the federal deficit.
Trade deficits are chronic in many parts of the developing world.
Jamaica's budget deficit has been considerably reduced in recent years.
Because the U.S. spends more on buying imports than it earns on exports, the country has the largest trade deficit in the world.
Uncomfortably high fiscal and current account deficits could be future problems in the Czech Republic.
Despite enormous oil revenues, Saudi Arabia expects to have a budget deficit in 2002, partly due to increased spending for education and other social programs.
It is unfair to expect taxpayers to make up the social deficits caused by government budget cuts.
The team was able to overcome a two-goal deficit, and win the game.
Psychologists now believe that memory deficits which occur as we get older may be because we lose the ability to suppress irrelevant thoughts or irrelevant stimuli.