What is a 3 tier budget?

What are the major problems with the American budget?

• What are the major problems with the American budget, and how would you go about fixing them? For me, one of the major problems is that there is no incentive to save. What happens a lot is that organizations will force themselves to waste the rest of the budget they have remaining at the end of the year, just to retain their limit. Because often, whatever you don't spend, they cut off from your budget the next year. So it makes sense to spend the rest of it, so you can have that same amount in case you need it next year. What I see as the best solution, would to create an incentive to save. My idea? Alright, say you have a 100k budget. Of that, you spend only 90k. So that means 10k was not spent. Under the current budget. You'd just get dropped down to 90k for the next year. My idea. Take 50% of what they save, so 5k of 10k, and put it aside for them. So they'd have an account with 5k in it. And don't take away from their budget. The other 5k, just goes back into the pool so to speak. So if this is a budget for a school. It'd go back up to the school district. There it could be reused on schools that need an increased funding. And then you apply the same thing to the school district. Say you have 10 schools, all with 100k budget. Say, all of them saved 10k, and 5k went back up to the school district. Well that adds up to 50k saved in the district budget. So 25k of that is put aside for the district budget, and raised to the next level again, something like state. So this creates an incentive to save. "I get to put aside 5k for when I really need it." is a great reason to not needlessly spend 10k then. Cause say you do this for 5 years. You now have 25k set aside for when you need. Well say one of the buildings ended up with fire damage. Instead of having to stretch the already stretched budget. You have that wonderful 25k set aside that could easily be used to cover that. Of course it won't be THAT simple. Regulations will need to be put in place so it isn't abused. And a new agency will need to be created. But that's not necessarily bad. If it saves as much money as it should, then the agency should have enough money to start without additional costs. And a new agency means new jobs that are definitely needed. It also means that if done right, money will be better distributed amongst government with new programs being able to be put in place without the need of a rise in taxes. And as it continues on, it will require a smaller budget, meaning it will require fewer taxes.

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  that sounds like a nice idea :) but wouldn't it be better to just keep them from lowering the budget, and use the change to balance the national debt out abit? if they would do THAT, then we wouldn't be in the pickle that we have jammed into the jar, and tightened the lid so much that we can no longer get it back off, no matter how much hot water we run over it...wait, what was i talking about? oh yeah: I LIKE PIE! but seriously, i think that the educational departments need MUCH more of our national budget if we are to retain...er, ATTAIN, a place in the career market, and get to where people want to buy things from US again, instead of the other way around...there is a series of serious issues on THAT particular topic (particularly "school reform"), but that is another topic for another day...