I am sure everyone knows that there are only two certain things in life, death and taxes, and that today is when the citizens of the worlds wealthiest nation come face to face with one the latter.
April 15: a day a number of people dread, because they don’t want to lose their money, or they just hate filling out the convoluted forms, or both. Taxes are something near to people’s thoughts as they cut into your pay, increase the price of goods, amongst other things all for the “benefit” of the nation. In what way do we benefit? We have a national defense, which everyone wants, upkeep of infrastructure, some would correct this to say in theory, social programs, which not everyone believes should exist, and a possible computer game. Yes, our taxes could go to make a video game where the goal is to balance the budget.
Here’s a USA Today article about it:
Nation’s soaring deficit calls for painful choices
They do not spend much time on it, but here’s the paragraph towards the bottom of the piece:
Bowles has been in touch with Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer about creating a deficit-reduction video game that would enable anyone with a computer to take a stab at balancing the budget, much like the 1994 commission did.
First thing I would do to balance the budget, is cut out junk like that.
