This is actually quite good. In order to balance the budget, you must make £48bn worth of cuts. You have to tick a number of policies which involve spending cuts or tax increases. Policies in red mean you'd be reversing promises already made to protect the funding of a certain service.

Make your way down the list, read the snippets of info and see how much of the deficit you've gotten rid of. The URL changes with each choice, so you can post your results when you've finished ticking the boxes.

I managed to make £26.3bn worth of spending cuts/tax increases, getting just over halfway.

I scrapped the winter fuel allowance.
I cut 10pc from the housing benefits bill.
I froze benefits for the working age population for 2 years.
I cut spending to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland by 10pc.
I abolished the Dept. of Culture, Media and Sport.
I cut 5pc from the international development fund.
I froze the defence budget.

I ended up with £21.2 Billion.

For the record I would've cut just the Ministry of Sport and cut spending in just England by 10%, but that option wasn't available.

Quote from: SuperIrish on November 10, 2014, 10:15:34 AM

I ended up with £21.2 Billion.

For the record I would've cut just the Ministry of Sport and cut spending in just England by 10%, but that option wasn't available.

dem taxes doe

Makes sense to me to rise alcohol and tobacco. Other than the instantaneous cash flow, you're reducing the damage it causes, reducing the pressure and therefore cost on the NHS in the long term.

The other stuff is just because the rich are rich and I dislike that. 

Quote from: SuperIrish on November 10, 2014, 10:30:21 AM

cost on the NHS in the long term.

Obese people and smokers are actually cheaper to treat.

Where'd obese people come into this? I'm talking about liver cirrhosis, organ transplants, treatment for alcoholics, mental capacity and wellbeing for general life, all that stuff that comes with alcohol. A rise in price means less consumption, and at the very least the tax hike covers the cost of the damage alcohol does.

People get to live longer, meaning they work for longer, meaning they pay taxes longer, and now at a tad higher rate.

I managed to cut £40.2 billion.

- Scrap the winter fuel allowance
- Cut 10% from the housing benefit bill
- Freeze benefits for working-age population for two years
- Scrap free television licenses for people over the age of 75

- Scrap plans to build HS2

- Cut resource spending on Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland by 10%
- Abolish the Department of Culture Media and Sport

- Cut 5% from international development

- Scrap Trident successor
- Freeze the defense budget

- Add a further 1% onto the standard rate of VAT

Print more money and make inflation illegal.
Simples.

I would like to have a go at the game, how resource heavy is it? Is it like a full on flash game sort of thing? If I click it it might blow up my router if that's the case.

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