1. Government imagines lots of income for the year
2. Government creates spending budget
3. Government spends it.
Ok so far?
4. Government turns out its pockets and
5. Government finds them empty
6. Government raises taxes!
And then....
7. Government gets a windfall from IMF
8. Government begs money from Europe
9. Government fleeces the taxpayers
But still...
10. People lose their jobs
11. People cut their budgets
12. People's tummies begin to rumble
But what if
13. Government cut jobs?
14. Government reduced its budget?
15. Government went for liposuction?
Because if not
16. People will not be able to pay taxes
17. Government will charge them fines
18. Government will add imaginary fines and unpaid taxes to their imaginary income (see above) and tell the IMF and the EU how much they have SAVED!!!
"And they all lived happily ever after."
The (bitter) End