This is cool

David Slack has put together a calculator which calculates how much people will get from , and what cutting various areas will save, to fund the cuts.

Now David is a leftie, and it is designed to turn you off tax cuts. It does the usual little tricks like expressing the cash to taxpayers as a weekly figure, and presents the total cost as an annual figure, rather than also a weekly per capita figure. It is meant to scare you off.

It also makes some bogus assumptions such as that if one got rid of the wananaga (which do not actually advocate) a third of their students would enrol in and hence almost save no money.

But regardless of all that, I love playing with it. Both to see how much one can get back, with various options, but also the pure pleasure from clicking yes to abolish various daft government schemes.

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