The federal government has incurred budget deficits more than 80% of the time since 1930, a period when the number of governmental functions increased dramatically.

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This would be a good thing from the standpoint of federal finances, since runaway entitlement spending is the most important single factor that drives federal spending, deficits and debt, making it harder to fund other governmental functions.

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