Balance the national budget yourself!

[Mircea]

Originally Posted by Zimar

Did anyone play with this when it was originally published?

It's quite stupid actually.

You can cut the budget and harm the economy, or cut the budget and help the economy (or in the very least create a neutral impact on the economy). This thing doesn't let you do that, and more importantly, it doesn't show you the economic impact of the actions you take. In other words, if you do these things, how many jobs will it cost (or gain) and how will it affect GDP etc etc etc. It's mostly for propaganda purposes.

Budgeting...

Mircea

[NorthStarDelight]

This is a very useful exercise, as it shows how *easy* it is to cut government spending and limit increases in taxes - I came up with 94% reduction in spending, and 6% increase in taxes (mainly from limiting tax reductions for providing health insurance).

If only I could be put in charge for a year or 2, there wouldn't be any budget / deficit problems to speak of by the time I got done with the budgetary chainsaw...lol.

It's simple math folks: Take what you've got coming in, and limit your spending to that amount. That's it. It really is that simple.

[Ceece]

Originally Posted by NorthStarDelight

This is a very useful exercise, as it shows how *easy* it is to cut government spending and limit increases in taxes - I came up with 94% reduction in spending, and 6% increase in taxes (mainly from limiting tax reductions for providing health insurance).

If only I could be put in charge for a year or 2, there wouldn't be any budget / deficit problems to speak of by the time I got done with the budgetary chainsaw...lol.

It's simple math folks: Take what you've got coming in, and limit your spending to that amount. That's it. It really is that simple.

It is that simple in many ways. Cut the "nice to have" things, the "but we've been doing this since..." things, the "this willl make some industry rich" things, and stick to basics.

I do realize that nothing is really ever that simple though. Too much behind the scenes nonsense and backroom deals and codependency to actually change stuff.