Balance the Maryland budget with this Flash game

I paused. I couldn’t think of a reason why I should go to the Maryland Budget and Tax Policy Institute site. That is, of course, excluding those whose work run along that line or kids with homework. Kidding. But seriously though, there doesn’t seem to be much traffic circulating around the site, so they came up with this – a challenging and crowd-drawing edutainment Flash game.

I paused. I couldn’t think of a reason why I should go to the Maryland Budget and Tax Policy Institute site. That is, of course, excluding those whose work run along that line or kids with homework. Kidding. But seriously though, there doesn’t seem to be much traffic circulating around the site, so they came up with this – a challenging and crowd-drawing edutainment Flash game.

You will be the Governor of Maryland and faced with a “projected deficit of at least $1.7 billion dollars for the fiscal 2011 year.” You’ll have to balance the budget, making spending decisions across various sectors, such as education, transportation, and healthcare.

“I thought that doing something that was a little bit like a video game would be able to inform, educate and entertain some people who wouldn’t otherwise come to our site and read about the state budget,” said Neil Bergman, the Institute’s director.

Think budgeting your paycheck is tough?

The Caroll County Times [via Gamepolitics]