Balancing the federal budget

This is a lot of fun.  With the tax policies that I like, and a few strategic cuts, I was able to get the 2006 budget down to 40 billion even as I doubled spending on a few programs I thought deserved it.  Of course, I have some clue which items are big ticket and which aren't.  I wish some Republicans would play with this game a bit, as by and large they seem confused on that issue, imagining that foreign aid is a big budget item and so forth.