Budget Totals
Old budget was $3747.36 billion ($2672.527 billion in spending, $1074.833 billion in tax expenditures and cuts).
New budget is $3340.69 billion ($2236.4 billion in spending, $1104.29 billion in tax expenditures and cuts).
You have cut the deficit by $406.67 billion.
Your new deficit is $-5.66 billion. ========================================================
Note: I played the "short version".
I eliminated Education, ALIF, General Family Support, and Commerce & Housing Loan Programs. I cut Social Security by 20% and Training, Labor & Unemployment by 50%. Everything else remained the same. So, it's not perfect. ==========================================================
PetroniDE... Someone here thought my screenname was "Tired of Texas". Now that I saw your tagline, I think I know why. :-0
great post. The long and short of it is that budget can be easily balanced. It depends on whose ox is being gored. No one receiving goodies from the government i.e. the American taxpayer doesn't believe that they are not deserving of what they get. These people would howl when their subsidies got cut (not necessarily totally eliminated, just cut), but in the long run everyone, including the cuttees, would be better off.
I used similiar techniques. I didn't touch S.S., only reduced Commerce & Housing Loan (-50%) and added/cut by 10% a few items.
I also played the short version. When I have more time, will play the long version.