Nearly all educational expenditure should be considered a capital outlay, whether it provides a future return in the form of enhanced taxable income or in terms of an enhanced quality of life.
Don't you think you're just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic?
The nominal budget is a poor indicator of the impact of government outlays and revenues.
Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief.
Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare.
