Setting federal spending priorities

1. All federal government functions will be assigned to either a federal department or an executive department. A federal department will be created for the executive, legislative and judicial branches of the government and they will each be used to manage the day-to-day workings of their respective branches (pay salaries, maintain facilities and pay for operational expenses). All other functions will be vested in an executive department that will serve under the President, i.e., the President's cabinet.

2. Each federal and each executive department will sell lottery tickets to persons who are electors for the U.S. House of Representatives and the number of lottery tickets sold shall be equal for all departments and the odds of winning, number of prizes and value of prizes shall be equal for all departments so there will be no financial incentive to buy one lottery ticket over another, and the revenue raised by a lottery for any department shall not be transferred to or used by any other department providing that revenue for the Department of the Treasury shall be used to retire the current public debt of the United States.

3. Each federal and each executive department, except the Department of the Treasury, will sell bonds to persons who are electors for the U.S. House of Representatives and the number of bonds sold shall be equal for all departments, and the interest rates and maturity dates will be the same for all departments so there will be no financial incentive to buy one bond over another, and the revenue raised by bonds for any department shall not be transferred to or used by any other department and no other bonds may be sold by the federal government.

4. No money may be appropriated by any federal or any executive department except in consequence of a federal law and no law shall appropriate money from more than one department.

This plan will allow individual Americans more say in setting spending priorities both as to determining what activities will be funded and the amount of money that will be appropriated.