One of the major challenges faced by lawmakers is trying to reconcile competing and incomparable priorities.

One of the major challenges faced by lawmakers is trying to reconcile competing and incomparable priorities. It is impossible to make a fair comparison between the need for Social Security and the need for national security. They\’re both high priorities, but there is no ethical or socially responsible way to determine which is more important. The federal government is tasked with providing both, so making resource allocations among competing priorities a daunting task. This assignment will allow you to pretend you\’re empowered to make such decisions. Take the Federal Budget Challenge (link below). The object of the game is to reduce the deficit. You must remember, however, that in attempting to do so, you must not ignore other, equally important priorities.
Here is the link: http://www.federalbudgetchallenge.org/pages/overview

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Federal Budget Challenge
An informed decision-making in federal budget allocations depends upon a good electorate. Therefore, the most fundamental contribution we can make to help promote the budgeting process towards a healthy and viable fiscal future is to familiarize ourselves with challenges faced by lawmakers in trying to reconcile competing and incomparable national priorities (Robson, Laurin & Wyonch, 2017). Based on the…