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[Kuros]

Here's a game where given a few limited parameters, you can attempt to balance the US Federal Budget.

After approving Universal Healthcare, I could not balance the budget, even after repealing the Bush tax cuts entirely and pushing in lots of places on the revenue side.

[Kuros]

I'll only bump this once. Nobody would like to try this?

[Fox]

I brought the deficit from 14.4 trillion to 10.1 trillion dollars over 10 years after approving universal health care. The only controversial things I did to achieve this:

1) Selected all of the choices regarding raising taxes on the wealthy (Bush tax cuts gone, charitable donations required to be 2% of your income to be tax deductible, etc).
2) .50 cents per gallon tax on gasoline (I feel this will have the triple benefit of encouraging less driving, encouraging higher fuel efficiency, and raising government funds).
3) Ended agricultural subsidies (the option forced me to select "and create risk management accounts", but I'd rather just end the subsidies and leave it at that).
4) Didn't fully fund No Child Left Behind (I think America's "education problem" is primarily cultural, and the things we can do to help it have more to do with using school time more wisely than anything else).

Have to say I wish there were both more options, and more choices within each option to choose from, but it's a fun little game none the less. If I were given more control, and access to the entire budget, I bet I could balance it. Given the system is literally set up to make balancing the budget impossible, though, I'm not too upset with how mine turned out.