Sentence examples for structural deficit are from inspiring English sources

Q: Under your definition of structural deficit, are you saying there has no increase?

His promises to balance the books and to eliminate the structural deficit are postponed again, this time until 2018.

Now, let me tell you what a structural deficit is.

But he warned that the structural deficit was more worrisome.

I don't think people realise how serious this structural deficit is.

The £109bn structural deficit is the largest in Europe, he says.

Q: The OBR says that the structural deficit is going to be larger than it was originally thought?

A structural deficit is a gap between regular yearly costs, like salaries, and reliably recurring revenues, like taxes.

And while growth is not lagging, France's structural deficit is high.

A structural deficit is what happens when a city's recurring revenues, like taxes, are not enough to support its regular annual expenses, like salaries and benefits.

The structural deficit is important politically for the government because it can argue that only cuts or tax rises will ever get rid of it.