No, a country should not always run a deficit.

Go an read some basic fundamentals about systems. Look up that key thing called ‘resilliance’.

Companies like Amazon can run a deficit because they can fire staff if they can’t afford them. Those fired employees need a country that can re-absorb them. A country can’t fire its population. Yes, it should borrow. No, it shouldn’t go so far that its resiliance breaks down.

No one can predict what will happen in 5 years, and if you’re not able to absorb a serious shock, your nation gets wiped out… just like many societies before us. I don’t want us to join them.