…or the machete, and stabilize the debt. A good game for the whole family. I don’t think they like to play in Washington, though.
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…or the machete, and stabilize the debt. A good game for the whole family. I don’t think they like to play in Washington, though.
[Via Veronique]
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I can’t find the option for “dismantle the Federal government except for the military and court system.”
I hit 57% by 2018 with a combination of spending cuts in defense,
minor increases in domestic policy and revenue bumps.
first time around.
jack goes for cutting defense and increasing domestic spending? What a shock! Who would have thought of such coming from a leftist Obama apologist??
Anyway, this “simulator” is bunk, as it assumes tax rate cuts to be revenue cuts.
Took a lot of whittling and nasty compromises to get something that A) approached my principles and B) approximated the cuts the app designers demanded; I even threw a corporate tax cut in there to balance out the abandonment of the Bush tax cuts a bit. It’s full of rubbish assumptions, and clearly is based on CBO fantasy scoring, or else repealing ObamaCare wouldn’t be ranked as a net increase in spending.
Where the hell are they getting their roll-Social-Security-back-to-68 numbers from? It’s surprisingly marginal, I would have expected twice the bump they were offering.
This is a good example of the problem with computer simulation… you really can get whatever results you want by the assumptions you code into it. Never… ever… trust a simulation. They’re good for getting you into the right ballpark and often not even that.
Slash the afghan war, cut SDI and a few minor defense cuts…
Spend more on infrastructure,
expire the bush tax cuts and raise the cap on SSA and raise the age to 68.
pretty decent start.
It’s a set of trades.
it says roll SSA entry to 68 probably onl if you are under 50.
you need to give people lead time so it won’t affect the boomers
“Generally speaking, we assumed that most policies would phase in over time, and have little or no effect before 2012. Since most non-Social Security options are only formally estimated over a ten year period, we used our own calculations to extrapolate their effects in the second decade. In most cases, this meant assuming past growth rates would continue. When there were specific reasons to believe these trends would not continue, our extrapolations differed. “