...Why the U.S.’s deficit, surplus and debt have an effect on a domestic automotive manufacturing (exporter) and The United State’s financial reputation on an international level The United States financial reputation on an international level The new economic cycle; 2000 to 2001 the United States economy has gradually dropped. This dropped occurred before September 11, 2001 terror attack and continued during the international financial crisis. The United States is struggling with the fundamental or comprehensive which has hinder the strength of the United States. One major problem is the fiscal and trade deficits. "In 2010, the fiscal deficit in the United States was $1.3 trillion or approximately 9 percent of U.S. GDP" (The Brookings Institution.) The budget deficit and debt limit the resources to spend on production and investment. Similarly, the impact of imported products on employment in the United States is not as much as great as some sensational arguments might make it appear. This is because most products imported by the United States are not produced by the United States, or are produced by the United States in a quite small amount. A domestic automotive manufacturing (exporter) The U.S. current account goods and services trade deficit which is balanced by our foreign investment surplus. Trade just means exchanging in which when we export fewer foreigners then they export to us. In all actually The U.S. could be getting compensate for that. By exporting less than...
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...| The Effects of Running a Surplus or Deficit Budget | ECO 372 | The current state of America’s fiscal policy is of major concern for the majority of the populace with the constantly increase of health care, gas, home interest rates, and staggering unemployment number, some are wondering if this nation will survive. Even many fiscal experts are forecasting that The United States is on road to fiscal disaster which seems to confirm the fears of the nation. Compounding the problems is an elderly populace and increasing deficit problem, a growing segment of government spending apportioned to interest expenditures and entitlements for the upcoming years resulting in plunging government's prolific investments and pushing out private shares. The deliberation of this paper is centered on how and why the U.S.’s deficit, surplus, and debt influences on the taxpayers, impending social security and Medicare users, the unemployed, University of Phoenix students, America’s financial reputation on a global scale, national (export) automotive manufacturer, Import of Italian clothing company, and gross domestic product (GDP). The near term objectives of the paper to convey information as complete glaze of US fiscal policy and how the current fiscal policy influences the nation. American taxpayers play a major role in the economy; this is why there is so much commotion about the millions of immigrants who do not pay taxes. The role of a taxpayer and the role of the economy go hand...
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...Federal Budget Deficit/Surplus I'm looking at a comment in speech when Obama talked about the federal budget. Obama reached a deal to increase spending over the next two years by cutting some social programs and raise the federal borrow limit. He reached an agreement that would raise spending by $80 billion and an extra 32 billion dollars for the emergency war fund. By increasing spending, it would make cuts in medicare and social security disability benefits, etc… The $80 billion is just over one percent of the yearly annual budget. Obama uses Obamacare as a way to lower the debt in a way the differentiating taxation. President Obama is concerned with the people of the United States, but he is still trying to raise the money by making...
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...Week Four Reflection Summary ECO/372 November 5, 2012 University of Phoenix Week Four Reflection Summary In week four, Team D—Joe, Beverly, Kevin, and Rachel—learned about deficits, surpluses, and debt in relation to the macroeconomic health of the United States. The group as a was very comfortable with the discussion of the week while learning new information about the health of the economy. The following is a summary of what the team learned in regard to deficits, surpluses, debt, and the health of the economy. Budget Deficits Budget deficits occur when government expenditures exceed the amount of revenue coming into the economy through income and taxes. A deficit is a summary of how the economy measures the state of using and accounting procedures. Since World War II, the United States government has run a large amount of deficits, as opposed to surpluses. A deficit can be good or bad, depending on the specific condition of the economy. When the government runs a budget deficit, the goal is to improve the economy. When the economy is not progressing at a rate the country expects, the government will spend money to help stimulate economic growth. If the government spends money to improve revenue for the long-term, both the government and society benefit by the added debt. A budget deficit can help businesses create more jobs to limit the amount of unemployment and improve consumer income. The debts accumulated may be the result of spending on worthwhile projects like road...
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...Week five Fiscal Policy Paper * Depending on the time, the economy can have many financial stages. There are times when the economy is facing a budget deficit, which means the tax revenues in the government are lower than the government expenditures. The economy can also experience a surplus and high debt, which can also drain an economy. The state of our government can affect people from taxpayers, to the elderly who are collecting social security, to children needing medical and governmental benefits for their well-being. The government debt situation can be either an advantage to the population by lowering taxes, or a disadvantage by making taxes higher. * To know how taxpayers, future Social Security and Medicare users, and unemployed individuals are affected by the U S.’s deficit, surplus, and debt. It is important to understand the definitions of deficit, surplus and debt. Surplus occurs when there is more supply than demand, as in extra resources. Deficits occur when a government's expenditures exceed the revenue that it generates. Debt is an amount owed to another person or government in economics. * Taxpayers can benefit from a budget surplus. A surplus can create a reduction in the tax rate which leads to a higher consumer’s savings rate. The less taxes that consumers have to pay allows spending or savings in other areas. An increase in national savings (reduction in tax rate) also creates additional money that can be available for banks to...
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...stimulate or slow down the government (Colander,2013). These policies directly impact tax payers and future social security and Medicare users because they create a deficit, surplus, and debt. The purpose of this paper is to discuss how this deficit, surplus, and national debt affect all have impacts on these citizens. To understand how a deficit, surplus, and national debt affect the economy, it is important to understand what each term means. First there is a deficit which is a lack of funding to cover a cost. A surplus is just the opposite of a deficit. An extra fund left over after the cost of something is paid for in full is called a surplus. Any long term running deficits, in actual currency terms, is considered debt. The United States (U.S.) has accumulated a large amount of debt, increasing its deficit more every year. Surprisingly, national debt has plagued us since George Washington’s presidency, a whopping $75,463,476.52 in 1791 (Steinbring, J., 2011). The U.S. deficit leaves very little in terms of money flow for the government. When deficits are added to current debt, the federal government needs a way to pay to some of it off. This is where fiscal policy comes into the picture, resulting in increased taxes for Americans (Accumulating Money, 2015). Even during times of government surplus, Americans are still required to pay taxes to cover our country’s ever increasing debt (Accumulating Money, 2015). In addition, if national debt...
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...how deficits, surpluses, and debt in relation to the macroeconomic health of the United States. A government deficit is when federal spending is greater that the tax revenue received for that year. Each year the deficit is added to the current debt, the Treasury must sell bonds to raise the money to cover deficit. At first, the deficit spending does boost economic growth. As we have read in the previous weeks, government spending does have a positive effect on the economy; it lowers interest rates, increasing the money supply available, and creates jobs, which lowers the unemployment rate. However, if the deficit is added to the national debt this is very damaging to the economy because the government can let the value of the U.S. dollar fall, this would make the debt repayment cheaper and less expensive. This will have a negative effect on foreign government and how investors view the strength of our Treasury bonds, and they will be reluctant to purchase Treasury bonds, this will cause an increase in the interest rates. When creditors become concerned about a country's ability to repay its debt, they demand a higher interest rate to provide a greater return on this higher risk investment. Treasury bills, notes and bonds are used to finance budget deficits, if foreign government and investors do not purchase them, the U.S. will have difficulty raising money to continue to finance the deficit On the other hand, a budget surplus is the opposite of a budget deficit. A...
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...has learned that deficits, debts, and surpluses are accounting measures. There are many things to consider as important whether a budget is in surplus or deficit. The true importance is the health of the economy. The state of the economy needs to consider when to make a decision about whether deficits or surpluses are beneficial for the United States. Taxpayers have implemented how their money is in use when paying off deficits and how surpluses are in use to give back to the country. Debates of how taxpayers should use their money extremely important on how it affects deficits, debts, and surpluses. One debate is about how concerned an individual should be about deficits involves the future of the Social Security System and Medicare users. Unemployed individuals depend on these types of benefits and the number of users affects the accounting measures. To discuss the United States deficit, here are some examples of opinion from a University of Phoenix student. In addition, part of our discussion will illustrate the United States financial reputation on an international level. This will include an example of importer and exporter. Our team will give an example of an (importer) an Italian clothing company and for an (exporter) a domestic automotive manufacturing. Understanding accounting measures involves the health of the economy, which can be determined by the measure of the gross domestic product (GDP). When the United States is facing a deficit or debt the taxpayers...
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...Fiscal Policy Paper Deficit can affect multitudes while a surplus creates positive results for those on the receiving end. A debt requires the liability to be paid or the liability may be repossessed or rendered bad credit to the individual. While Americans face issues with debt, surplus, and even deficit it is important to know that the United States deals with it first hand as well. Several areas the three topics affect include tax payers, unemployed, Social Security, Medicare, imports, exports, and the GDP. A synopsis of Team B’s discussion of the topics follows. Tax Payers Taxes are imposed on the United States by three categories; federal, state, and local government. Tax payers are taxed on their income, payroll, property, sales, imports, estates and gifts, as well as various fees. Tax payers are required to file tax returns whether it be for a business, corporation, or individual. Tax payers are affected by the U.S. deficit when there is a shortfall in revenue which is the result from the National Debt increasing. Additionally when there is a surplus tax payers are affected as well. Future Social Security and Medicare Users Social Security Administration figures that by the year 2040 the SS trust fund will be used up causing utilizing one of three options: borrowing, increasing revenue, or lowering benefits. The Medicare program is estimated to be much closer to crisis than the SS trust fund. In contrast to current Medicare and Social Security benefits budget...
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...Reflection Summary A budget deficit occurs when government expenditures exceed the amount of revenue coming into the economy through income and taxes. Since World War II, the United States government has run a large deficit, instead of a surplus. Depending on the particular condition of the economy, a deficit can be right or wrong. The goal is to improve the economy when the government runs a budget deficit. The government will spend money to help stimulate economic growth when the economy is not progressing at a rate the country expects. Both the government and society benefits from the added debt when the government spends money to improve revenue for the long-term. A budget deficit can help businesses create more jobs to limit the amount of unemployment and enhance consumer income. The debts accumulated may be the result of spending on worthwhile projects like road repair or necessary services like education. The government is also spending to establish programs for the longevity of the nation. A budget deficit can have an adverse effect on the economy. A budget deficit can result in increased debt. As the debt increases, the government increases taxes. When taxes are higher than business owners can afford, the result is an increase in unemployment. A budget deficit can also lead to an increase in printed money, which decreases the dollar value and increases inflation. Budget surplus is the opposite of the budget deficit. A budget surplus occurs when government expenditures...
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...Buffett is betting that American trade deficit will not be restored and the country’s practice of borrowing from abroad to pay for the current goods and services will not stop. The USA borrows from abroad to finance its trade deficit, on top of that the USA government spends more money than it takes from taxes. The budget deficit increases the gap between country’s national savings and national income and and also widens the deficit in the current account by necessitating the country to borrow more money from other foreign countries. This widened current deficit puts strain on the USA currency in the financial markets. If Americans are going to buy inexpensive imported goods and the USA government has a budget shortage, I think Warren Buffett is making a fantastic move by betting against the dollar. Between 2002 and 2007 the dollar has fallen by 40 percent. 2. Why has the United States developed such large current account deficits? I and a lot of people believe the United States has developed such a large current account deficit is the trade deficit. The USA is importing more goods and services more than it exports so it has held trade deficit since the late 1960s and this trade deficit has been mushrooming at an unbelievable rate since 1997. The increasing oil prices in the last few years has helped increased the current account deficit too. Another reason for the current account deficit could be attributed to the budget deficit. In almost every year the government cuts...
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...The United States federal deficit is continually contracting or expanding depending on how expenses paid match up to incoming revenues. A government policy which implements either expansionary or contractionary policies greatly influences the size of the deficit as well as any surpluses gained. Because deficits and surpluses are such an integral part of our economy, the way they affect almost every sector of our lives can be far reaching and long lasting. In this paper we will evaluate some general side effects of having either a surplus or a deficit and how they affect specific areas of our lives. Taxpayers If the economy is in a recession, taxpayers have a budget with minimal amount of money to spend on goods or services. The tax rates change because of the number of employed individuals working in a year. If the economy is going through an inflation period, the government has options for those extra funds. One option, if the government has run budget deficits in the past, is to use surplus funds to retire the debt accumulated from those deficits, as Mankiw discusses in his book (Hall, 2012.) Another option is for some of the money to be given back to the taxpayers for boosting the economy with purchases of merchandise for households. A third option for the government would be to direct the surplus funds toward other spending, such as improved infrastructure, new domestic programs or additional defense spending (Hall, 2012.) Future Social Security and Medicare Users Taxpayer...
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...effects of the United States' Deficit, Surplus, and Debt The United States goes through a large amount of changes every day and there are certain things that affect all Americans. When the United States goes through deficit at times, surplus, and debit and when these things happen everything is affected. Students, business owners, and even car manufacturers are affected. These three types of budget issues happen to the United States and when one happens they have positive effects and the negative effects. Each person and business that is affected by this has to make sure that they know how to adjust to the changes so that they can better their finances. Taxpayers The United States deficit, surplus, or debt affects taxpayers because the government adjusts tax rates as needed to help the economy. When the United States has a budget deficit and a large debt, they proposition to raise taxes on wealthy Americans to help lower the deficit. The government is not the only one that feels the economy go into deficit. If the United States economy goes into a surplus, the government has spent less than the income they have received. This allows them to decrease taxes expected from taxpayers that gives Americans more money to spend and put back into the economy. Future Social Security and Medicare Users As the United States continues to stay in a budget deficit, the government will decrease the amount paid to support the Social Security and Medicare programs. For future users, this will...
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...Italian Clothing Company The deficit, surplus, and debt of the United States affects an Italian Clothing Company because; when it comes down to the United States deficit, it would cause the market to be over-run by foreign products. The rate in which a country is exporting is not at the level with it’s’ exports, a surplus would lead to more importation by the Italian Clothing Company and debt, it would cause the imports to be reduced (because many business partner would be hesitant to do business with the importer. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Effects on Italian Clothing Budget Deficit Expansionary polices, such as those incorporated into an economy during a recession, have positive effects for imports. Increasing the money supply will increase an American consumer’s option to purchase more foreign goods such as Italian clothing (Colander, 2010). Budget Surplus Contractionary policies, such as those that may occur in an economy operating at its productive capacity will have a negative effect on the purchase or Italian clothing. Levels of trade with foreign countries will decrease from the peak productive period. Debt Initiatives to pay-down the United States debt could have a negative effect on the economy, thus reducing the demand for Italian clothing. However, if efforts to lower the debt are successful there will be less tax burden on consumers in the future leading to more opportunities for foreign trade. An Italian Clothing Company (Importing) When the...
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...Fiscal Policy ECO/372 June 1, 2015 Alan Beideck Fiscal Policy The United States deficit, surplus, and debt influences the economy in a number of ways, and it creates an impact on taxpayers, social security and Medicare users, unemployed workers, and students. These issues also affect the countries financial reputation, exports, imports and the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The U.S. economy is experiencing a budget deficit and outstanding debt, and the outlook is not good for taxpayers. If these two items do not get under control, future generations will be left to pick up the pieces and will have to try to find a way to maintain and control the budget. Taxpayers Taxpayers are the people that pay and contribute to state revenue. Government deficits affect taxpayers by increasing taxes and interest. "Inflation also affects the deficits by affecting the size of social security payments, federal pension payments, and interest on the federal debt. The deficit and surplus are sensitive to the business cycle" (Deficits, Surpluses, And Debt, 2015). "If the government use surplus it would "give tax cuts to taxpayers, increase income transfers, pay down national debt and spend it on goods and services" (Deficits, Surpluses, And Debt, 2015). Future Social Security and Medicare users The Social Security program began in 1935 and benefits have always been paid on time, even with modified laws over the years. Benefits are expected to continue to be paid on time through...
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