# Balance the Budget

> Think you can do better than Congress? Take on a $1.99 trillion deficit and 100 simulated senators. Write a bill and get 51 yes votes. Free.

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## Pages

- [Prove you can do better — Balance the Budget](https://www.balance-the-budget.finance/index.md): Think you can do better than Congress? Take on a $1.99 trillion deficit and 100 simulated senators. Write a bill and get 51 yes votes. Free.
- [Write a bill. Face the Senate. — Balance the Budget](https://www.balance-the-budget.finance/play.md): Read the budget, write a bill and watch 100 simulated senators vote on it. Free, with no sign-up.
- [Hall of Almost: the best bills so far — Balance the Budget](https://www.balance-the-budget.finance/leaderboard.md): The best bills so far at balancing the US budget. Read them, borrow the good ideas and try to beat them.

## Leaderboard entry

- [ZFine](https://www.balance-the-budget.finance/leaderboard/d033c0327047): The bill cuts national defense funding by 5%, targeted at internationally deployed forces, and imposes a 3% tax on corporate revenue above $1 billion per year.
- [Marco](https://www.balance-the-budget.finance/leaderboard/2674ba46bcba): The bill imposes a 100% income tax and a 25% annual net worth tax on US citizens above a $100 million threshold, applies both worldwide, and blocks citizenship…
- [Marco](https://www.balance-the-budget.finance/leaderboard/2069d20b61a3): The bill limits the mortgage interest and SALT deductions, taxes carried interest as ordinary income, raises the corporate rate to 25 percent, taxes unrealized…

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