Can You Close the Deficit Gap?

Where Does Your Money Go? challenges you to beat the Chancellor to it before tomorrow’s budget and close the UK’s financial deficit. Will you increase taxes, make cuts or a mix of both? No decision is going to be popular but are some more palatable than others, you decide.

More information:

• Closing the Deficit Gap App
  • On the Guardian Datablog
• http://www.wheredoesmymoneygo.org/cuts/
• http://www.wheredoesmymoneygo.org/cuts/faq/

The application was created by the Where Does My Money Go? team. Researched by Lisa Evans and Tim Hubbard using many figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies. Visualized by Rufus Pollock and Tim Hubbard using the thejit and jquery.

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