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If you could close the government's budget gaps, how would you do it?
For once, you can actually try. The New York Times has created an interactive tool that lets you choose what you would like to chop off the American budget. Your choices would help save the American people from projected shortfalls of $418 billion (in 2015) and $1,345 billion (in 2030). All you have to do is choose what to cut. Will you decrease war troops? Increase the age for social security? Tax millionaires? Tax carbon? Just check the box next to the initiative and watch the New York Times’ graph fulfill the budget gaps.
Sounds easy, right?
Link to budget puzzle:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/11/13/weekinreview/deficits-graphic.html?hp
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