So what you are saying is that when more people are working, thus paying taxes and not taking out government programs, that the deficit goes up?
There is a series of cause and effect you don't understand.
When the government increases spending (increased deficit) the unemployment rate falls. This usually happens after a recession. Note in the chart I posted in my last response. This increases income in the private sector. That revinue drives tax receipts up and politicians generally overreact by trying to cut programs and reduce spending which reduces the deficit until the economy falls back into recession, rise and repeat. This can be seen from this chart:
Notice that when the deficit falls below the dotted line, recession sets in and deficits increase.
This can further be shown by looking at the 7 sustained periods when the government ran a surplus. Six out of the last seven times the economy has immediately fallen into a depression immediately following government surplus.
1804-1812: U. S. Federal Debt reduced 48%. Depression began 1807.
1817-1821: U. S. Federal Debt reduced 29%. Depression began 1819.
1823-1836: U. S. Federal Debt reduced 99%. Depression began 1837.
1852-1857: U. S. Federal Debt reduced 59%. Depression began 1857.
1867-1873: U. S. Federal Debt reduced 27%. Depression began 1873.
1880-1893: U. S. Federal Debt reduced 57%. Depression began 1893.
1920-1930: U. S. Federal Debt reduced 36%. Depression began 1929.
1997-2001: U. S. Federal Debt reduced 15%.
Recession began 2001.
Fact:
Recessions tend to come on the heels of reductions in federal debt/money growth (See graph, below), while debt/money growth has increased when recessions were resolving. Taxes reduce debt/money growth.
No government can tax itself into prosperity, but many government’s tax themselves into recession.
Your move.