Where Does Your Tax Go - Allocating a National Budget

A high-school civic and public economics simulation. Four citizen advisors of the Republic of Costaria face a CO$ 100 bn federal budget across 8 categories, must absorb a CO$ 4 bn debt-service shock, and choose a tax instrument to raise CO$ 8 bn. Teaches budget shares as policy choices, mandatory vs discretionary spending, opportunity cost at national scale, fiscal incidence, and the equity-efficiency trade-off.