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is deficit
noun
Deficiency in amount or quality; a falling short; lack.
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The first is deficit reduction.
(That, he said, is deficit reduction).
"The problem is deficit spending".
Environmental injury is deficit spending.
He argued that health-care reform is deficit reduction.
Normally, it is deficit countries that need to devalue.
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(The negative impact of tax increases is smaller when the explicit goal is deficit-reduction, but still present).
Well, the Peter G. Peterson Foundation is deficit-scold central; Peterson funding lies behind much of the movement.
Since the Congressional Budget Office is the universally accepted arbiter in such matters, the Democrats have to produce a bill that the C.B.O. says is deficit-neutral, now and forever.
But that's not the argument Ferguson is making — he is deliberately misleading readers, conveying the impression that the CBO had actually rejected Obama's claim that health reform is deficit-neutral, when in fact the opposite is true.
That is, deficits represent negative saving.
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