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2/23/2011 8:23:29 AM
joan
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would love to see someone take this tool and use it to create a game called "Lets Cut the Budget". In the game, players would have an actual (2010?) target deficit to reduce to zero. Players would choose what to cut and how much. The game would respond to the player with the potential effects of any cut. Once the player has made all decisions and met the target, the player would hit a "final" button. Each player could only have one final answer. The game would then collect this data. A tabulation of a large cross section of the populace could indicate how we want to meet this real challenge. The game would also help educate the populace on this difficult and complex process, hopefully making better educated voters and taxpayers.
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2/24/2011 1:36:27 PM
dalj
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There are already sites that do essentially what you're suggesting,
http://balancethebudget.com/
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/11/13/weekinreview/deficits-graphic.html
Just to name two that I'm familiar with. Another certainly wouldn't hurt however I'd like to see something slightly different; I'd like to see some kind of option where people could rate how much they approve or disapprove of a certain area of spending. I was thinking something like when you're rating songs in an album via iTunes. Whenever I try to talk the budget with people it almost always boils down to a list of things people are ok with paying for and things they aren't and I've yet to see a real comprehensive set of data to show this for a significant section of the population.
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