NYT budget deficit project(game)

It's that time of year again, another game/graph thing for what mix of spending cuts/tax increases you'd use to balance the budget if possible. Not every possible idea is available, only the big options that are current proposals being studied as possible solutions. So give it a whirl and list what you did to try to balance it and what your final result in terms of money saved was. You should be able to just link your final results.


http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/11/13/weekinreview/deficits-graphic.html?choices=hmysq5ns
55% tax increases
45% spending cuts

Fun thing is this version doesn't let you finish and share until you kill the deficit. I had to agree to a bunch of things I didn't want to.

 

i solved the deficit

69% tax increases
31% spending cuts

not 100% sure about some of my choices, i'm very hungry right now

and, of course, it would never work that way in real life . . .

 

You know what they say about doing the national budget when hungry, I notice no cuts to farms

 

i live in a farming region

how do you expect me to get re-elected?

 

I Solved the Deficit!
63% tax increases
37% spending cuts

Where's the legalize & tax pot option?