{"id":811,"date":"2004-04-12T00:44:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-12T00:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=811"},"modified":"2018-08-14T07:55:53","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T12:55:53","slug":"811","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/12\/811\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bone?  I Cut To The Marrow, and Sucked It!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Think you can do better than Congress?  Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nathannewman.org\/nbs\/\" target=\"new\">National Budget Simulation<\/a>, where you can set budget priorities and adjust taxes.  Your hero, or mine anyway, scored thusly:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>Budget Totals<\/h2>\n<h3>Old budget was $3251.488 billion<br \/>\t(<b>$2264.172<\/b> billion in spending,  $<b>987.316<\/b> billion in tax expenditures and cuts).<\/p>\n<p>\nNew budget is <b>$1727.29<\/b> billion<br \/>\n\t(<b>$1318.51<\/b> billion in spending,  <b>$408.78<\/b> billion in tax expenditures and cuts).<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<h3>You have cut the deficit by $1524.2 billion.<\/h3>\n<h3>Your new deficit is $-1167.19 billion.<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Oops!<\/h2>\n<p>You&#8217;ve cut so much that the federal budget now contains a substantial surplus. Many economists warn that this budget may help induce or prolong a recession,<br \/>\nand ordinary citizens demand a refund.  You might want to cut taxes or raise spending.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><b><i>Oops?<\/i><\/b>  That&#8217;s not a bug, it&#8217;s a feature!<\/p>\n<p>(Link seen on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theagitator.com\/archives\/011318.php#011318\" target=\"new\">The Agitator<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think you can do better than Congress? Here&#8217;s the National Budget Simulation, where you can set budget priorities and adjust taxes. Your hero, or mine anyway, scored thusly: Budget Totals Old budget was $3251.488 billion ($2264.172 billion in spending, $987.316 billion in tax expenditures and cuts). New budget is $1727.29 billion ($1318.51 billion in spending, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23449,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions\/23449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}