This is cool

David Slack has put together a calculator which calculates how much people will get from tax cuts, and what cutting various spending areas will save, to fund the tax 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 I do not actually advocate) a third of their students would enrol in universities 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.