You Can Balance The U.S. Budget In Five Minutes
[Via Big Think]
The New York Times website has a budget puzzle widget on it that allows you to decide what to do in order to reduce the budget deficit the United States has run for decades. At first, it seems so simple that you wonder why every congressman doesn’t have one these on his office computer. Push a few …
This is a nice demonstration of some hard truths. It is actually pretty easy to balance the budget – if some specific revenue increases are included.
We can not have a sustainable economy with only tax cuts. In addition, healthcare costs are the major reason for exploding budgets. Get healthcare costs under control and we could do a much better job controlling the budget.
