Assertion: deficit | /r/CapableOf | shrink for several years
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text: The deficit hit 9.8% of GDP in fiscal 2009 during the worst of the Great Recession, then shrank for several years as the economy improved (more people working and paying taxes and fewer people collecting unemployment benefits and the like), Congress was tight-fisted on the spending it appropriates annually, and taxes were raised a bit on upper-income Americans.