Kurosawa once said; " take myself, subtract movies, and the remainder is zero, " which just goes to show how deeply passionate he was about filmmaking.
Your Ideal Reader can be of tremendous help when it comes to figuring out how well you did with the back story and how much you should add or subtract on your next draft.
So if you think about the deficit as the government adding more than it's subtracting, you can actually begin to see the deficit as a surplus or a financial contribution that is made to the non-government part of the economy.