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Hey guys, and welcome to another economics example where we're going to be talking some more about fiscal policy.
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Specifically in this example, we're going to be talking about budget deficits and surpluses.
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So how would you go about calculating it? it's pretty simple, very simple math.
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So a budget deficit or surplus is basically calculated by taking your tax revenue and subtracting it by your government expenditure.
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So if this number is positive, you have a budget surplus, and then if it's negative, you have a budget deficit.
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So we can just try a quick example here using some pretty old data from 2007 in the us.
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So in 2007, the expected, so this is before the end of the year, they didn't actually know there could have been changes, but the expected tax revenue for that year was going to be a lot of money.
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But $2 .35 trillion.
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So we'll put it in billions...