Interesting.
Some enterprising folks have created an online “game” of sorts where you can go and try your hand at balancing the California budget, by making various trade-offs between different types of spending and taxation. They’ve used the real numbers and projections from the California Legislature.
Give it a try, and let us know in a comment how your budget solution comes out.
UPDATE: Jason adds: I took the challenge. With the “status quo” in year ten the deficit will be $-12.1 billion. WIth my policy choices we would have a $10B surplus. But I’ll tell you what, this test is very broad stroke. Cool concept tho. I just wanna know: when does multiple choice selection of programs we want to fund or not get included on our income tax forms? The programs citizens do not want to fund get axed. period.