To a normal person, this is economist talk, aka smoke and mirrors, accounting sleight of hand, mumbo jumbo.
Calling it "real economic sense" is just adding insult to injury. We're just too ignorant to understand, aka appeal to authority, or as Mark twain, I think, said, Lies, danmned lies and statistics.
It is abolutely possible, I am sure, to determine what the budget was for any year for which records exist, and convert it to, say, 1950 dollars, all the way to last year, and compare what was actually spent compared to the budget for the fiscal year as adopted by Congress as required by the Constitution.
Next subject as obfuscated by our elected politicians (I call them elected criminals.) When did deficit spending (and resulting increase in the National debt) become routine, rather than an emergency rare event?
Who originated it and when? which Congress? Which Party? Which specific politician sponsored the first (no-depression, non-war deliberate) intended deficit? which other elected politicians endorsed it?
Are those questions too difficult or impossible to answer?
I'm talking historical facts, not opinions.
And couldn’t we start with an audit of where the money goes, including DoD and CIA, but especially DOD.
https://www.gaia.com/lp/content/21-trillion-missing-us-budget/
And, whether some thing he’s a kook, traitor, or a moron, if I’m not mistaken, Ross Perot carried around a book that was written by some college kid that detailed where all the money was going. I want to say it was written some girl getting her Master’s or something like that. It had all sorts of off-the-wall stuff that the government, WE, was funding.
And before we get to any of that, it would be real nice to know about all the redundant federal programs, the numerous overlaps of federal law enforcement and the REAL price of immigration, legal and illegal, and refugee programs.
Then we can start with the Balanced Budget crap.