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The Federal Government spends more money than it collects in taxes. In some cases, such as in wartime, the Federal government needs to spend a lot of money recruiting soldiers and sailors, buying guns and weapons, and conducting the war.

During peacetime, the government should cut spending, but since the 1920s or so, the Federal government has been giving money away to individual citizens as welfare. As welfare has expanded and other government spending has ALSO increased, tax collection hasn't kept up with the spending.

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