Sunday, December 11, 2011

[12.11.11] New York Times Budget

Apparently I solved the deficit...
So apparently I did lots of things wrong. Ahahahaha.

23% came from tax increases while 77% came from spending cuts.

I felt that the easier choices to make involved the military, army, and navy, while the most difficult choices involved jobs, taxes on the less fortunate, health insurance, etc.

If Congress were to come into play, I think that probably none of these cuts/tax increases would have been acted on.

While I was reading the "7,000 Ways to Fix the Deficit," I couldn't help but notice the mention about the soda tax. It seems like a good idea, a sort of win-win situation. If there are still people that want to drink soda, there would be a lot of revenue generated. If people decided to drink soda less, it would help the obesity problem...

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