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The traditional  Congressional-Political-Process    could be helpfully informed - - - by  The-Members-of-Congress  creating individual public-

advisory-statements in which each recommends the percentages by which they EACH-ONE believe the following rates of taxation-and-spending should be 

INCREASED-OR-DECREASED - - - by specified percentages of current rates.

    Total Federal Domestic Spending in support of:

 1. WAR-ACTIVITIES; preparations-for, during, and essential-following-activities.

 2. MILITARY-VETERANS' NEEDS that have been caused by their service in past wars.

 3. INDIVIDUALLY OWNED FAMILY-FARMS within the U.S.A.
 
 4. LARGER FARMING-CORPORATIONS that are based in the U.S.A.

 5. PUBLIC-HIGHWAYS within the U.S.A.

 6. PUBLIC-TRANSIT-SYSTEMS within the U.S.A.

 7. PUBLIC-AIRPORTS within the U.S.A.

 8. NON-FOSSIL-FUEL ENERGY-RESEARCH REGARDING NON-EXHAUSTIBLE SOURCES OF ENERGY AND REGARDING ENERGY-USE-EFFICIENCIES.

 9. RESEARCH IN SUPPORT OF MORE EFFECTIVE HEALTH-CARE.

10. THE IMPROVEMENT OF foundational SCIENCE EDUCATION WITHIN THE U.S.A.

11. Expanding Inter-Planetary Humane Space-Research.

11. Expanding Inter Planetary Humane Space-Travel.

12. Expanding Inter-Stellar Humane Space-Travel.

13. Expanding Extra-Terrestrial Mining Efforts for scarce minerals.

14. Supporting Corporate Concentrations of Wealth-and-Powers.

15. Mitigating Systemic Distributive-Injustices.

16. Mitigating Terrestrial Material-Resource-Depletions.

17. Augmenting Terrestrial Material-Resource-Regenerations.

18. Mitigating NON-Sustainable Exponential-Growth-Patterns.

19. Augmenting Stable Economic-Growth-Patterns.

20. Augmenting Healthy Corporate Mergers.

21. Augmenting Fusion-Energy Resource-Developments.

22. Augmenting Oil Exploration and Production.

23. Augmenting Coal Exploration and Production.

24. Insuring Growth in Global Energy-Consumption.

25. Expanding the Growth in Global Natural Resource Consumption.

26. Preventing further Natural Species Extinctions.

27. Working for the Sustainability of Global-Civilization in the Long-Term.

28. Mitigating Our Own Alienative-Conflicts World-Wide.

29. Mitigating the Costs of the Military-Industrial-Congressional-Complexes.

30. Mitigating the Winning of our Collusive-Games-of-Mutual-Self-Deception.

31. Augmenting Planing for Recovery from Major National Disasters in Timely-Ways.

32. Each other traditional kind of Federal Support Program.



Given such public information about the recommendations from individual Members-of-Congress - - - it will be possible to identify    The-Median 

Recommendation  for changing each rate of taxation-and-spending in each identified kind of Federal-Effort.  That information can be used by responsible-

leaders to help build-consensuses about how to move forward responsively-and-responsibly in managing the Federal Budget - - - in thoughtful-well-informed ways.


To be consistently gracious-and-sustainable - - - any process of setting the above kinds of priorities - - - needs to be interwoven with a complementary process 

of affirming through words, deeds and behavioral patters - - - mutually complementary patterns of ideals, values, principles, virtues, grounds for hope, etc.

Such priority-setting-processes need to occur both within the formal processes of official governmental agencies - - - and within pervasive informal gathering.


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