It's a game

http://marketplace.publicradio.org/f...s/budget_hero/

Now don't bother with the thing where it scores you. Not only does it have a bug, but how they figure stuff in the long run may well disagree with how you feel it would, especially in regard to taxing corps and the like.

More interesting is that they presumably have real values on the "cards" you play. So it lets you see the prices of various options that could be taken.

Personally I was a bit hard on the rich, though not corporations, generous with research and a bit hard on entitlements (raising the retirement age for example).

Good game! lots of fun.

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This is interesting; where do you find games like these?