Balance the budget online

The Economy League of Greater Philadelphia has a new tool up that gives users the opportunity to try and balance the city's budget deficit on their own. You can find it here. It works a little like a digital version of the Penn/WHYY sponsored budget workshops of past weeks, which turned out to have a pretty significant influence on the mayor's proposed budget and five-year plan. The budget tool has some good information in it, with pro and con arguments for each spending cut / tax increase included in the exercise. On the other hand, the budget options available in the tool are fairly limited. It's a better fit for budget novices than budget geeks.

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Posted by Patrick Kerkstra @ 1:14 PM Permalink | 2 comments

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 2:53 PM, 03/23/2009

This is a great idea -- bravo to the Economy League for putting this fun widget online.

— CleanupPhilly

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 2:57 PM, 03/23/2009

Did the other journalists play with it yet? Did they balance the budget? I ended up with surplus with no new increases in business or economic taxes. One thing the widget lets you do is assume that Harrisburg will increase the sales tax, which is not at all certain.

— CleanupPhilly

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